Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug.
Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug.
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Meadows Taylor, Philip. Confessions of a Thug. Edited with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Drawings by Clarke Hutton. London, The Folio Society, 1974. 14.5 x 23cm. 372 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover in protective slipcase. Green stained top edges. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Philip Meadows Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the most influential novel about India before Kipling’s Kim and was one of the best-selling crime novels of the nineteenth century. In the course of a confession to a white ‘sahib’ the imprisoned Ameer Ali recounts his life as a devoted follower of Thuggee, a secret religious cult practising ritual mass murder and robbery.
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