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An Eye for an Eye
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An Eye for an Eye Hardcover - 1996

by Clarence Darrow

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  • Title An Eye for an Eye
  • Author Clarence Darrow
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 213
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lawbook Exchange
  • Date 1996-04
  • ISBN 9781886363076 / 1886363072
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99047232
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

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An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

by Darrow, Clarence

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1996. ISBN-13: 9781886363076; ISBN-10: 1886363072. Darrow, Clarence S. An Eye for an Eye. Originally published: New York: Fox Duffield & Company, 1905. 213 pp. Reprinted 1996 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363076; ISBN-10: 1886363072. Hardcover. New. $19.95 * An Eye for an Eye was Darrow's only fictional work, aside from his autobiographical novel, Farmington, published in 1904. It tells the story of Jim Jackson, who struggles with poverty and harsh circumstances, before finally murdering his wife in a fit of rage. Faced with the gallows, Jackson confesses: "If ther'd been forty scaffolds right before my eyes, I'd have brought down the poker just the same." Darrow's novel is a sociological polemic which foreshadows such later works as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Abe Ravitz in his Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition (1962) observed that An Eye for an Eye was worthy of a trophy not only for sociological veracity but also for… Read More
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