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 Free Download The traveller in the evening : the last works of William Blake By Blake, William; Blake, William; Blake, William; Paley, Morton D 2003 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 0199255628 | PDF | 15 MB This is a study of Blake's poetry, art, and thought during the last years of his life, from 1818 to 1827. Morton Paley considers some of Blake's major accomplishments, including Blake's wood engravings for Thornton's Virgil, the separate plate known as The Laocoon, 101 illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, and the great series of Illustrations to the Book of Job. Paley shows us a Blake who has flowered during his late years; a Blake who is free of any "systems," including his own  Free Download The thirteenth turn : a history of the noose By Shuler, Jack 2014 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 1610391365 | EPUB | 16 MB The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America.The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. 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