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The Seven Who Were Hanged

Chapter 2: A STORY
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A tight, psychological drama follows seven condemned prisoners as their execution nears, tracing each person’s past, motives and shifting emotions. Interleaving prison scenes, official procedures and private recollections, it contrasts conviction, ignorance, madness and despair while portraying the bureaucratic machinery that prepares them for death. The narrative probes how fear, memory and conscience shape final behavior and considers capital punishment’s moral weight, the arbitrariness of guilt, and the intimate human costs of state violence.

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Title: The Seven Who Were Hanged

Author: Leonid Andreyev

Translator: Herman Bernstein

Release date: October 1, 2004 [eBook #6722]
Most recently updated: June 27, 2020

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Eric Eldred, and David Widger

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The Seven who were Hanged

A STORY

by Leonid Andreyev

Authorized Translation From The Russian By Herman Bernstein.


Contents

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED
CHAPTER I AT ONE O’CLOCK, YOUR EXCELLENCY!
CHAPTER II CONDEMNED TO BE HANGED
CHAPTER III WHY SHOULD I BE HANGED?
CHAPTER IV WE COME FROM ORYOL
CHAPTER V KISS—AND SAY NOTHING
CHAPTER VI THE HOURS ARE RUSHING
CHAPTER VII THERE IS NO DEATH
CHAPTER VIII THERE IS DEATH AS WELL AS LIFE
CHAPTER IX DREADFUL SOLITUDE
CHAPTER X THE WALLS ARE FALLING
CHAPTER XI ON THE WAY TO THE SCAFFOLD
CHAPTER XII THEY ARE HANGED



Leonid Andreyev

DEDICATION
To Count Leo N. Tolstoy
This Book is Dedicated
by Leonid Andreyev

The Translation of this Story
Is Also Respectfully Inscribed to
Count Leo N. Tolstoy
by Herman Bernstein