The Seven Who Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev
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The Seven Who Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev
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I am very glad that "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged" will be read in English. The misfortune of us all is that we know so little, even nothing, about one another—neither about the soul, nor the life, the sufferings, the habits, the inclinations, the aspirations of one another. Literature, which I have the honor to serve, is dear to me just because the noblest task it sets before itself is that of wiping out boundaries and distances.
The Seven Who Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev- Amazon Sales Rank: #4838037 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .14" w x 6.00" l, .21 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 62 pages
About the Author Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev , 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist and symbolist schools in literature.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. A tragic masterpiece with a message for us By Dr. Richard M. Price This is a reissue of the original 1909 American translation -- rather stiff, but still serviceable -- of the most popular, and very possibly the best, of the stories of Leonid Andreyev, after Gorky the most popular young Russian writer in the two decades before the Revolution. It tells of seven people condemned to death, five for a botched political assassination and two common murderers, and of how they face their ordeal, with reactions varying from martyr-like self-sacrifice to abject terror. Each of the seven is well differentiated, and none is a stereotype; they are treated with remarkable insight and imagination, and with a compassion that is never mawkish. The account of the last meeting between one of the condemned and his parents is a masterpiece of restrained writing, one of the most moving things you will ever read. One of the messages of the story is the ability of the human spirit to rise above affliction, treated without any rhetoric or blowing of trumpets. In a letter to his American readers that forms a short preface to the translation, Andreyev wrote, 'My task was to point out the horror and the iniquity of capital punishment under any circumstances.' He wrote with confidence of the sympathy of his readers. It is ironic that the USA is one of the last civilized countries where this penalty has still not been abolished. Andreyev's story has lost none of its relevance.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. What each prisoner does, says and thinks in the days before being hung by the neck until dead By Kenneth K. Watts The title was intriguing to me, and so at 1138 Kindle locations long I read it over two evenings. There are some typographical errors but nothing you cannot tolerate. The English translation was copyrighted in 1909, so it probably takes place during the earlier 1905 Russian Revolution. 5 terrorists-3 young men and 2 young girls-are arrested while carrying explosives and guns, before they were able to harm anyone. They are tried in secret and condemned to death by hanging. There are 2 others who are condemned to the same fate: one who is an admitted murderer and thief, and the other who likes to get drunk and act recklessly, who one day knifes his master several times and as an afterthought attempts to rape the cook. Even though he knows he did this he insists to the very end that he does not want to be hanged. The author describes what each of these people do, say and think during their trials, in their cells and during the trip to the gallows. There were no appeals and they were helpless to prevent the sentence from being carried out. Each man is described much more vividly than the two girls. The actual hangings are not described, but there is a graphic description of what the bodies look like afterwards. Let us just say that death was not instantaneous.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. One of the truly great twentieth century Russian writers By A Customer 'The Seven that Were Hanged' and 'The Red Laugh,' also included in this book, are two of Andreyev's best stories and are both brilliant psychological explorations of the nature of death and war, respectively. Andreyev is largely ignored by the English reading public and few of Andreyev's plays or stories are translated and even fewer are in print. While achieving a small measure of fame in Russia early in his writing career for his short stories, esp. 'Lazarus', Andreyev's later writings, among which these two stories figure, were largely ignored. This is a reprint of a 1918 edition of Andreyev's works with the original and informative introduction by Thomas Seltzer which strangely neglects to analyze 'The Red Laugh.' These two stories are essential and will only leave you hungering for more of Andreyev's amazing writings.
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