Eighteen Months' Imprisonment
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment by Donald, late captain Shaw is available here as the complete text, split into 471 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The House of Detention
- Chapter III “Settling Down.”
- Chapter IV “Prison Fare.”
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Bow Street
- Chapter VII Newgate
- Chapter VIII The Scaffold
- Chapter IX A Private Execution
- Chapter X “Newgate Etiquette.”
- Chapter XI The Titled Convict
- Chapter XII The Central Criminal Court
- Chapter XIII “Corpulency.”
- Chapter XIV Coldbath Fields
- Chapter XV “Oakum” Let Us Sing
- Chapter XVI The Visiting Justices
- Chapter XVII Prison Trades
- Chapter XVIII “The Outer World.”
- Chapter XIX “The Convalescent Ward.”
- Chapter XX Criminal Lunatics
- Chapter XXI Prison Celebrities
- Chapter XXII The Tread-Wheel
- Chapter XXIII Gardening
- Chapter XXIV The Church Militant in Prison
- Chapter XXV The Hospital Dead-House
- Chapter XXVI Burglars “I Have Met.”
- Chapter XXVII “Justice Tempered with Mercy.”
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