9009 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from 9009

Preface prison (american prison) some time. And much worse things could have happened to 9009. By which we mean that much worse things have happened to some convicts in some prisons some times - and we know of these things.

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Excerpt from 9009

The impulse which moved us to write this book was primarily indignation - indignation at facts. At facts learned slowly and gradually by one of us through years of patient investigation, and then told, all in one mass, to the other, who thus came to them with an abruptness giving intense vision. A work written in the fervor of indignation is apt to be violent, unbalanced, and unjust. We were alive to this danger; after some thought, we saw how we could best avoid it. It was by using in the story facts only. 9009 is a story made of facts - a Fact-Story.

By this we do not mean that 9009 is a biography. Convict 9009 - John Collins - exists only in our imagination.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.