01875cam a22003493u 4500 50010 UtSlPG 20260610134141.0 m cr n 260607r2015||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2015 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Day_of_a_Condemned_Man "Together with Told Under Canvas and Claude Gueux" Release date is 2015-09-19 Under sentence of death; or, a criminal's last hours -- Told under canvas: Bug-Jargal -- Claude Gueux. Produced by Andrew Sly, Cindy Beyer, Al Haines and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours" by Victor Hugo is a novella first published in 1829. It recounts the thoughts and fears of a man condemned to die by guillotine in 19th-century France. Written to advocate for abolishing the death penalty, the work traces the prisoner's psychological transformation as he awaits execution, recording his observations of prison life while never revealing his name or crime. The story culminates on his final day as reality closes in. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified French fiction -- Translations into English Campbell, Gilbert, Sir, 1838-1899 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50010 90848 90848