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Confessions Of A Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor Folio
This remarkable and often horrific novel – in which the tools of fiction were used to make known an almost unbelievable story of fact – is far from being the product of an overfertile and rather gruesome imagination. Meadows Taylor specifically and justly claimed that it was not written ‘to gratify a morbid taste in any one for tales of horror and crime’; his aim was to expose just how widespread were the activities of the Thugs, those disciples of Kali whose victims, barbarously murdered, may well have numbered forty thousand a year. Meadows Taylor was himself one of the pioneer investigators into the Thug gangs; he wrote from first hand knowledge and gave to the otherwise incredible the authentic ring of truth.
It is based on the Thuggee cult in British India. The plot revolves around a fictional anti-hero protagonist, Ameer Ali, a Muslim thug. This book is a tale of crime and retribution in India, beginning in the late 18th century and ending in 1832. The story lays bare the practices of the Thugs, or “deceivers” as they were called, who murdered travellers for money and valuables.
Features;
- Folio Society First Impression No. 366
- Publisher Folio Society, London; 1974
- Light Browwn Cloth Hardback, 372 pp
- With drawings by Clarke Hutton
- Size 230 x 150mm, 950g
Condition: Fine – Missing Slipcase, Fine Copy
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