Confessions of a Thug by Matthew Kaiser
Set in a British prison in Sagar, India in 1832, and inspired by actual events, Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the picaresque tale of north Indian Thug Ameer Ali, who strangled over seven hundred people in his lifetime. Ameer Ali recounts how he rose to prominence as a Thug leader, how he fell from power, and how he took vengeance on his enemies.
Matthew Kaiser is an associate professor and chair of English at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford University Press, 2012), the translator of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs (Cognella, 2017) and the editor of seven books, including Alan Dale’s A Marriage Below Zero (Cognella, 2011) and the forthcoming A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609276348 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609276345 |
| Title | Confessions of a Thug |
| Author | Matthew Kaiser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cognella, Inc |
| Year published | 2011-12-29 |
| Number of pages | 668 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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