This is a work somewhere between a long short story and a short novella. It concerns, as the title suggests, the last days of a condemned man. It focuses on the emotional life of the condemned man and is an indictment of capital punishment. Included with the work is a preface that is an angry ess...
Great for those who are already Bronte fans.
'I WONDER who this is from,' said Mrs Brandon, picking a letter out of the heap that lay by her plate and holding it at arm's length upside down.Lovely fun, and Mrs Brandon is a chalk-and-cheese contrast to Olive Kitterdge, who I am also reading about at this moment. One being all outside fluff and ...