Confessions of a Thug

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Confessions of a Thug

Philip Meadows Taylor

Edition year 1974
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Clarke Hutton
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 376
Dimensions 22.8 × 14.8 cm

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Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor. Edited with an introduction by Brian Rawson. 15 full-page drawings by Clarke Hutton. Bound in yellow-brown cloth with a wrap-around frieze design in dark green by Hutton. Map endleaves printed cream on dark green. Yellow-brown textured slipcase. 22.8x14.8cm. 376pp.

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Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug is a nineteenth-century historical novel framed as the testimony of Ameer Ali, a member of the criminal fraternity known to the British as Thuggee. Through his recollections of journeys, robberies and ritualised killings across India, the book combines adventure and crime narrative with colonial-era ideas about organised banditry. It became highly influential in shaping Western perceptions of the Thugs.

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