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(2.67) | None | An anthology of legal stories from the early 19th century to the present. Many are by well-known writers such as Twain, Orwell and Faulkner. Subjects range from innocent men found guilty, to guilty men found innocent. Thirty-two stories in all. |
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None ▾Book descriptions An anthology of legal stories from the early 19th century to the present. Many are by well-known writers such as Twain, Orwell and Faulkner. Subjects range from innocent men found guilty, to guilty men found innocent. Thirty-two stories in all. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: The two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- from Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- from Adam Bede / George Eliot -- from Roughing it / Mark Twain -- from Lady Anna / Anthony Trollope -- from Billy Budd / Herman Melville -- from Weir of Hermiston / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- from The Forsyte saga / John Galsworthy -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The witness for the prosecution / Agatha Christie -- The letter / W. Somerset Maugham -- The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Tomorrow / William Faulkner -- And, or / Sterling A. Brown -- Happy event / Nadine Gordimer -- Greenhouse with Cyclamens I / Rebecca West -- from The floating opera / John Barth -- Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth -- from To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Mr. Portway's practice / Michael Gilbert -- The senior partner's ghosts / Louis Auchincloss -- from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp -- from The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles -- An act of prostitution / James Alan McPherson -- A gentleman's agreement / Elizabeth Jolley -- from The sorcerer of Bolinas Reef / Charles A. Reich -- from The good mother / Sue Miller -- from The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe -- American appetites / Joyce Carol Oates -- A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines. ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif) | |
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