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  • Confessions of a Thug
    Philip Meadows Taylor
    ’Confessions of a Thug’ is a gripping tale set against the backdrop of British colonial India. This historical novel delves into the shadowy world of the cult, notorious for its ritualistic murders and highway robberies. This shocking true- crime account, based on the author’s experiences in colonial India, offers a thrilling glimpse into a hidden world. It is not only a riveti...
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  • Confessions of a Thug
    PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
    Confessions of a Thug is an English novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor. This crime-novel was first published in 1839. A best-seller in 19th-century Britain, the novel is based on the Thuggee cult in India. Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that many consider it as the British Empire’s most sensational folklore fiction in the first half of the 19th century. Many re...
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  • Tara a Mahratta Tale
    Philip Meadows Taylor
    ''Tara: A Mahratta Tale'' by Meadows Taylor is an ''attempt to bring the interior Hindoo and Mussulman life of a great Mahratta province during the most exciting times home to the hearts and understandings of Englishmen, to interest them in people with whom they have nothing except human nature in common.''The Times:''For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better ...
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  • Confessions of a Thug
    Philip Meadows Taylor
    During the summer of 1839, Queen Victoria heard of a soon-to-be-published novel, which was going to expose a gruesome aspect of her Indian dominions. Intrigued, she summoned Richard Bentley and demanded to see page proofs. Duly delivered to the Queen were the first chapters of a compelling account of ritual murder committed by a thrilling, dark-eyed strangler named Ameer Ali, a...
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  • A NOBLE QUEEN A ROMANCE OF INDIAN HISTORY VOL II
    PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
    A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History by Philip Meadows Taylor is a novel written in three volumes that depicts one of the most important epochs in the history of the Deccan. The book features the life of the noble queen Chand Bibi who is remembered not only as the preserver of Bijapur, but for the heroic opposition she maintained against the Mughal armies in their first i...
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  • A NOBLE QUEEN A ROMANCE OF INDIAN HISTORY VOL III
    PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
    A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History by Philip Meadows Taylor is a novel written in three volumes that depicts one of the most important epochs in the history of the Deccan. The book features the life of the noble queen Chand Bibi who is remembered not only as the preserver of Bijapur, but for the heroic opposition she maintained against the Mughal armies in their first i...
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  • A NOBLE QUEEN A ROMANCE OF INDIAN HISTORY VOL I
    PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
    A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History by Philip Meadows Taylor is a novel written in three volumes that depicts one of the most important epochs in the history of the Deccan. The book features the life of the noble queen Chand Bibi who is remembered not only as the preserver of Bijapur, but for the heroic opposition she maintained against the Mughal armies in their first i...
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    18,81 €

  • Confessions of a Thug
    Meadows Philip Taylor
    '''Reader, if you can embody these descriptions, you have Ameer Ali before you; and while you gaze on the picture in your imagination and look on the mild and expressive face you may have fancied, you, as I was, would be the last person to think that he was a professed murderer, and one who in the course of his life has committed upwards of seven hundred murders.'' Set in a Bri...
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  • Ralph Darnell.
    Philip Meadows Taylor
    Title: Ralph Darnell.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include arou...
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  • Confessions Of A Thug
    Philip Meadows Taylor
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • Confession of a Thug
    Philip Meadows Taylor
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