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Great Britain. Committee On the Treatment By the Enemy of British Prisoners of War18
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The reign of terror : a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre, written by eye-witnesses of the scenes; translated from the French ; interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history (v.1)

Pinkerton, Percy; Ashworth, J H; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)

1898

v. 1. My agony of thirty-eight hours / M. de Jourgniac St. Meard -- Some of the bitter fruits of the Revolution, and a feeble sketch of the days of the 2nd and 3rd September, 1792 -- Relation addresse...

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Wil: Bagnal's ghost. Or The merry devill of Gadmunton. : In his perambulation of the prisons of London

Gayton, Edmund (1608-1666)

1655

Dated by Thomason Dec.1 1655. Armorial type ornament on titlepage. Headpieces, initials. In part a satire on 'The distressed merchant, and prisoners comfortin distresse' by William Bagwell ("Will ...

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In Russian and French prisons

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich kn︠i︡azʹ (1842-1921)

1887

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Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England : in company with Elizabeth Fry : with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline

Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847); Fry, Elizabeth Gurney (1780-1845)

1819

Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 22574.

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Vershiny i propasti

Nezhnyĭ, Aleksandr; Levenshteĭn, Viktor (1922-); Aleksandrov, Anatoliĭ (1927-); Andreeva, A A

2010

Includes poetry.

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13 l︠i︡et v Shisselʹburgskoĭ kr︠i︡eposti : zapiski L︠i︡udmily Aleksandrovny Volkenshteĭn

Volkenshtein, L A; Bur︠t︡sev, V L (1862-1942)

1900

With additional French title.

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