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The Seven Who Were Hanged

Chapter 6 VI THE HOURS ARE RUSHING

Word Count: 490    |    Released on: 29/11/2017

, and at every quarter-hour the clock rang out in long-drawn, mournful chimes, slowly melting high in the air, like the distant and plaintive call of mig

little horses filled the air. The prattle of voices-an intoxicated, merry Shrovetide prattle of voices arose everywhere. And in the midst of these various noises there was the young thawing spring, the muddy pools on the meadows, the trees of the squares which had sud

iving, stirring city by a wall of silence, motionlessness and darkness. Then it was that the strokes of the clock became audible. A strange melody, foreign to earth, was slowly and mournfully born and died out up in the heights.

assed unnoticed, to return again, also unnoticed. Sometimes they awaited it in despair, living from one sound to the next, trusting the silence no longer. Only important criminals were sent to this prison. There were spe

d from all that lives, five human beings, two women and three men, waited for the advent of n

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Leonid Andreyev Literature
“To Count Leo N. Tolstoy This Book is Dedicated, by Leonid Andreyev The Translation of this Story Is Also Respectfully Inscribed to Count Leo N. Tolstoy by Herman Bernstein FOREWORD Leonid Andreyev, who was born in Oryol, in 1871, is the most popular, and next to Tolstoy, the most gifted writer in Russia to-day. Andreyev has written many important stories and dramas, the best known among which are "Red Laughter," "Life of Man," "To the Stars," "The Life of Vasily Fiveisky," "Eliazar," "Black Masks," and "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged." In "Red Laughter" he depicted the horrors of war as few men had ever before done it. He dipped his pen into the blood of Russia and wrote the tragedy of the Manchurian war. In his "Life of Man" Andreyev produced a great, imaginative "morality" play which has been ranked by European critics with some of the greatest dramatic masterpieces. The story of "The Seven Who Were Hanged" is thus far his most important achievement. The keen psychological insight and the masterly simplicity with which Andreyev has penetrated and depicted each of the tragedies of the seven who were hanged place him in the same class as an artist with Russia's greatest masters of fiction, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Tolstoy.”
1 Chapter 1 I AT ONE O'CLOCK, YOUR EXCELLENCY!2 Chapter 2 II CONDEMNED TO BE HANGED3 Chapter 3 III WHY SHOULD I BE HANGED 4 Chapter 4 IV WE COME FROM ORYOL5 Chapter 5 AND SAY NOTHING6 Chapter 6 VI THE HOURS ARE RUSHING7 Chapter 7 VII THERE IS NO DEATH8 Chapter 8 VIII THERE IS DEATH AS WELL AS LIFE9 Chapter 9 IX DREADFUL SOLITUDE10 Chapter 10 THE WALLS ARE FALLING11 Chapter 11 XI ON THE WAY TO THE SCAFFOLD