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NOVL.1901.3'.HENR

O. Henry: Best Short Stories

* 1862, † 1910

Charge: Embezzlement of bank funds
Prison: Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio (Map)

Lilly Jahn: Letter from Auschwitz to sister Lore Sasse, 6 May 1944 (1 day in prison)
Patrick Pearse: Letters to his Mother (1 day in prison)
Martin Luther King (Jr.): Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 (9 days in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, & Other Writings (14 days in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Justine. (14 days in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Les Infortunes de la Vertu (14 days in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Les Infortunes de la Vertu (14 days in prison)
Helmuth Jahn Graf von Moltke: Letzte Briefe (14 days in prison)
Alfred Delp: Vater Unser (15 days in prison)
Jeffrey Archer: A Prison Diary. Volume One - Belmarsh: Hell (22 days in prison)
Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos (25 days in prison)
Mikhail Bakunin: The Confession of Mikhail Bakunin (1 month in prison)
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Month and A Day. A Detention Diary. (1 month 1 day in prison)
Xavier de Maistre: Voyage autour de ma chambre (1 month 14 days in prison)
Girolamo Savonarola: Prison Meditations on Psalms 51 & 31 (1 month 16 days in prison)
Jeffrey Archer: A Prison Diary. Volume Two - Wayland: Purgatory (70 days in prison)
Pierre Laval: Laval Parle ... (3 months in prison)
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky: Letters and Reminiscences (3 months in prison)
E.E. Cummings: The Enormous Room (4 months in prison)
Anwar Hilal: Electric Wiring in Home Extensions (4 months 15 days in prison)
Helmuth Jahn Graf von Moltke: Abschiedsbriefe Gefängnis Tegel an Freya Moltke (5 months in prison)
Walter Sir Walter Raleigh: The History of the World, Book II (5 months in prison)
Marie-Jeanne Roland: The Memoirs of Madame Roland. A Heroine of the French Revolution (5 months 8 days in prison)
Albie Sachs: The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (168 days in prison)
Alfred Delp: In Freiheit und in Fesseln. Ein Vermächtnis. (6 months in prison)
Bertrand Russell: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (6 months in prison)
Louis Auguste Blanqui: L'Eternite Par Les Astres (6 months in prison)
Louis Auguste Blanqui: L'eternity Par Les Astres, Hypothese Astronomique". (6 months in prison)
Bouck White: Letters from Prison. Socialism as Spiritual Sunrise (6 months in prison)
Jacques Fesch: Light Over The Scaffold. Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch and Cell 18. Unedited Letters of Jacques Fesch. (6 months in prison)
Max Joseph Metzger: Max Josef Metzger. Priest and Martyr 1887-1944. (6 months in prison)
Alfred Delp: With Bound Hands. A Jesuit in Nazi Germany. (6 months in prison)
Maria Vittoria Zeme: "... und entzünde einen Funken Hoffnung". (7 months in prison)
Corrie ten Boom: Corrie Ten Boom's Prison Letters (7 months in prison)
Mohammad Fadhel Jamali: Letters on Islam. Written by a Father in Prison to his Son. (7 months in prison)
Ulrike Meinhof: Ein Brief Ulrike Meinhof aus dem Toten Trakt (8 months in prison)
Martin Niemöller: Exile in the Fatherland, Martin Niemöller’s Letters from Moabit Prison (8 months in prison)
Richard Lovelace: Lucasta (8 months in prison)
Jean-Paul Sartre: Barionà, Fils Du Tonnerre (9 months in prison)
Marianne Golz-Goldlust: Die Briefe und Kassiber der "Volksfeindin" Marianne Golz-Goldlust (11 months in prison)
Rosa Luxemburg: Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie (11 months in prison)
Georgi Dimitroff: Dimitroff's Letters from Prison (11 months in prison)
Günther Weisenborn: Günter Weisenborn, Joy Weisenborn, Wenn wir endlich frei sind (11 months in prison)
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf (11 months in prison)
Rosa Luxemburg: Die Russische Revolution (12 months in prison)
Kiyoshi Miki: HOSYUU (12 months in prison)
Angela Davis: If They Come in the Morning. Voices of Resistance. (12 months in prison)
Antonio Negri: Spinoza (12 months in prison)
Hagai Matar (et al.): The Refusniks Trial (12 months in prison)
Antonio Negri: The Savage Anomaly (12 months in prison)
Takiji Kobayashi : TOUSEIKATUSYA/DOKUBOU (12 months in prison)
Tommaso (Giovanni Domenico) Campanella: Apologia Di Galileo (1 year in prison)
Alexander Pushkin: Boris Godunov (1 year in prison)
Last Letters. Prison and Prisoners of the French Revolution 1973-1794 (1 year in prison)
Graciliano Ramos: Memorias Do Carcere, Volume 1 (1 year in prison)
Graciliano Ramos: Memorias Do Carcere, Volume 2 (1 year in prison)
Edward Bunker: No Beast So Fierce (1 year in prison)
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (1 year in prison)
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (1 year in prison)
Lillian 'Anne' Yamauchi Hori: The Children of Topaz (1 year in prison)
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (1 year in prison)
Tamsin Fitzgerald: The Prison Letters of Tamsin Fitzgerald (1 year in prison)
Jean Genet: The Thief's Journal (1 year in prison)
Nikolai Chernyshevsky: What is to be done? Tales about New People (1 year in prison)
Milan Simecka: Letters from Prison (13 months in prison)
Pali Meller: Papierküsse. Briefe eines jüdischen Vaters aus der Haft 1942/43 (13 months in prison)
St. Thomas More: A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation (15 months in prison)
Izzat Al-Ghazzawi: Brev Underveis. Palestinke Brev Fra Israelske Fengsler. (15 months in prison)
St. Thomas More: Conscience Decides: Letters and Prayers from Prison (15 months in prison)
Kareem Amer: Various Articles (1 year 4 months in prison)
Dennis Brutus: Letters to Martha and other Poems from a South African Prison (18 months in prison)
Jeffrey Archer: A Prison Diary. Volume Three - North Sea Camp: Heaven (1 year 9 months 3 days in prison)
Fidel Castro: The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro (22 months in prison)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison (1 year 10 months in prison)
Hugo Grotius: The rights of war and peace (1 year 10 months in prison)
M.K. Gandhi: Songs from Prison. Translations of Indian Lyrics made in Jail (1 year 11 months in prison)
Various authors: ... I never saw another butterfly ... (2 years in prison)
Jacques Mesrine: Der Todestrieb. Lebensbericht eines Staatsfeindes. (2 years in prison)
Galileo Galilei: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (2 years in prison)
Antonio Negri: Empire (2 years in prison)
Eylül Hapishane (2 years in prison)
Leon Blum: For All Mankind (2 years in prison)
Neal Cassady: Grace Beats Karma: Letters From Prison 1958-60 (2 years in prison)
Ahmed Arif: Hasretimden Prangalar Eskittim (2 years in prison)
Krystyna Wituska: Inside A Gestapo Prison (2 years in prison)
Antonio Negri: Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitudo. Nove lezioni impartite a me stesso. (2 years in prison)
Francois Villon: Les Testaments. (2 years in prison)
Rosa Luxemburg: Letters from Prison (2 years in prison)
Letters from Russian Prisons (2 years in prison)
Mahsus Mahal (2 years in prison)
Jean Genet: Our Lady of the Flowers (2 years in prison)
Kim Dae Jung: Prison Writings (2 years in prison)
Valentyn Moroz: Report from the Beria Reserve. The Protest Writings of Valentyn Moroz. (2 years in prison)
Paul Verlaine: Romances Sans Paroles (2 years in prison)
Osip Mandelstam: Stichotworenija Prosa (2 years in prison)
Petr Ginz: The diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942 (2 years in prison)
Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man and Prison Writings (2 years in prison)
The Travels of Marco Polo (2 years in prison)
Osip Mandelstam: The Voronezh Notebooks (2 years in prison)
Adriano Sofri: Piccola Posta (825 days in prison)
Peggy Abkhazi: Enemy Subject. Life In A Japanese Interment Camp 1943-45 (2 years 6 months in prison)
Adam Michnik: Letters from Prison and other Essays (2 years 6 months in prison)
Jawaharlal Nehru: Letters from Gandhi, Nehru, Vinoba (2 years 9 months in prison)
Essa Karakaa: A Memory of Saint and Steel (3 years in prison)
O. Henry: Best Short Stories (3 years in prison)
Coming Hurricane (3 years in prison)
Eva Forest: Diario E Lettere Dal Carcere (3 years in prison)
Birgit Hogefeld: Ein ganz normales Verfahren (3 years in prison)
Jawaharlal Nehru: Glimpses of World History (3 years in prison)
Kate Richards-O'Hare: In Prison (3 years in prison)
Various authors: Inside and Out (3 years in prison)
Milorad Ulemek Legija: Juda. Roman o prijateljstvu. (3 years in prison)
Kazuichi Hanawa: KEIMUSYO NO NAKA (3 years in prison)
Milorad Ulemek Legija: KRAJ (3 years in prison)
Tommaso (Giovanni Domenico) Campanella: La Città de Sole: Dialogo Poetico (3 years in prison)
Milorad Ulemek Legija: Legionar (3 years in prison)
Raif Badawi: Letter from Prison (Brief aus dem Gefängnis), 12th February 2015 (3 years in prison)
Milorad Ulemek Legija: Momci Iz Brazilia (3 years in prison)
Regis Debray: Prison Writings (3 years in prison)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin: Raswitzie Kapitalisma v Rossii (3 years in prison)
Milorad Ulemek Legija: Shopor (3 years in prison)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin: The Development of Capitalism in Russia (3 years in prison)
Dolma Kyab: The Restless Himalayas (3 years in prison)
Essa Karakaa: Torture in the Prisons of Israeli Occupation (3 years in prison)
Firket Baskaya: Unknown Texts (3 years in prison)
Wall Tappings (3 years in prison)
Writers under Siege. Voices of Freedom from around the world. (3 years in prison)
Teedie Cowie Woodcock: Behind the Sawali: Santo Tomas in Cartoons, 1942-45 (3 years 1 month in prison)
Eugene V. Debs: Walls and Bars (3 years 3 months in prison)
Enoh Meyomesse: Gedichte des Häftlings in Kondengui (3 years 4 months in prison)
Hussam Khader: Prisoners and Imprisonment. Between Confession and Stamina. (3 years 4 months in prison)
Jacek Kuron, Karol Modzelewski: A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto. An Open Letter To The Party. (3 years 6 months in prison)
Shi Tao: Memorandum To The Chinese Media Concerning Coverage Of The 15th Anniversary of the Military Crackdown in Tiananmen Square. (3 years 6 months in prison)
Orhan Kemal: Nazım Hikmet ile 3,5 yıl (3 years 6 months in prison)
Vaclav Havel: Briefe an Olga (4 years in prison)
Paul Ferris: Deadly Divisions (4 years in prison)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (4 years in prison)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Devil On The Cross (4 years in prison)
Hasan Hüseyin: Haziranda Ölmek Zor (4 years in prison)
Antonio Negri: Time For Revolution (4 years in prison)
Vilém Kostka: Zum Beispiel Vilem Kostaka. (4 years in prison)
Karl May: Hinter den Mauern und andere Fragmente aus der Haftzeit (4 years 1 month in prison)
Eugene Dennis: Letters from Prison (4 years 6 months in prison)
I was in Prison. Letters from German Pastors. (5 years in prison)
Inside Eye. Wandsworth Prison. As Seen Through the Prisoners' Eyes. (5 years in prison)
Invincible Spirit (5 years in prison)
John Mitchel: Jail Journal: The classic diary of a great Irish patriot (5 years in prison)
Louis Althusser: Journal de Captivite. Stalag XA, 1940-1945. (5 years in prison)
Kassiber aus Bautzen. (5 years in prison)
Varlam Shalamov: Kolymskie Tetradi (5 years in prison)
Louis Althusser: L'Avenir Dure Longtemps. (5 years in prison)
La Parole Confisque. (5 years in prison)
Paul the Apostle: Paul's Letters from Prison. Philippians, Colossians, Philemon and Ephesians (5 years in prison)
Prison Etiquette: The Convict's Compendium of Useful information (5 years in prison)
Adriano Sofri: Altri Hotel. Il Mondo Visto Da Centro 1997-2002 (5 years 1 month in prison)
Asiye Guzel: Asiye's Story (5 years 4 months in prison)
Aziz Nesin: Korkma (5 years 5 months in prison)
Kazuhiro Mizutani: Gokuchuniki (5 years 9 months in prison)
Caryl Chessman: Cell 2455, Death Row (6 years in prison)
Ernst Toller: Dramen und Gedichte aus dem Gefangnis 1918-1924. (6 years in prison)
Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom From Fear (6 years in prison)
Antonio Gramsci: Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks (6 years in prison)
John Bunyan: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (6 years in prison)
Philip Priestley: Jail Journeys (6 years in prison)
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez: L'Islam Revolutionaire (6 years in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Les 120 Journees de Sodome ou L'ecole du Libertinage. (6 years in prison)
Mikhail Khorev: Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp (6 years in prison)
Ernst Toller: Letters from Prison (6 years in prison)
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez: L’Islam Révolutionnaire (6 years in prison)
Poems From Guantanamo. The Detainees Speak (6 years in prison)
Antonio Gramsci: Selections from the Prison Notebooks (6 years in prison)
Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom (6 years in prison)
Edward Bunker: The Animal Factory (6 years in prison)
Caryl Chessman: Trial By Ordeal (6 years in prison)
Youri I. Bandazhevsky: La Philosophie De Ma Vie. Journal De Prison (7 years in prison)
Mahvash Sabeth: Prison Poems (7 years in prison)
Nevzat Çelik: Şafak Türküsü (7 years in prison)
Essa Karakaa: Three O'Clock in the Morning (7 years in prison)
Raymond Suttner: Inside Apartheids Prison (8 years in prison)
Countess Markievicz: Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz (8 years in prison)
Michael O. Billington: Reflections of an american political prisoner. The repression and promise of the Larouch Movement (8 years in prison)
Felix Dzerzhinsky: Prison Diary and Letters (9 years in prison)
Abdullah Ocalan: Prison Writings: The Roots Of Civilisation (9 years in prison)
Arthur Konowalik: "...This is what the Law looks like, the Law created by the Immaculate Dictators" (9 years 6 months in prison)
Jimmy Boyle: A Sense Of Freedom (10 years in prison)
Conscience Be My Guide. An Anthology of Prison Writings. (10 years in prison)
Silvio Pellico: Le Mie Prigioni. Tragedie Scelte. (10 years in prison)
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur (10 years in prison)
Thomas Trantino: Lock the Lock (10 years in prison)
George Jackson: Soledad Brother. The Prison Letters of George Jackson (10 years in prison)
Antonio Gramsci: Gramsci’s Prison Letters. Letters dal Carcere. (11 years in prison)
Antonio Gramsci: Lettere dal Carcere (11 years in prison)
Jose Luandino Vieira: Luuanda. Estorias. (11 years in prison)
Marquis de Sade: La Marquise de Gange (12 years in prison)
Kemal Tahir: Notlar/Mektuplar (12 years in prison)
Caryl Chessman: The Kid Was A Killer (12 years in prison)
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress (12 years in prison)
Nazım Hikmet: Yatar Bursa Kalesinde (12 years in prison)
Louis Auguste Blanqui: Ecrits Sur La Révolution. Oevres Completes 1 (13 years in prison)
Marquis de Sade: Letters from Prison (13 years in prison)
Ali-Faraj Abu Al-Hassan: Poetry from the Prison (13 years in prison)
This Prison Where I Live. The PEN Anthology of Imprisoned Writers. (13 years in prison)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Child of All Nations (14 years in prison)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Footsteps (14 years in prison)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: House of Glass (14 years in prison)
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Live from Death Row (14 years in prison)
Wei Jingsheng: The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings (14 years in prison)
Jimmy Boyle: Prison Diaries by Jimmy Boyle. The Pain of Confinement (15 years in prison)
Klaus Viehmann: Three Into One: The Triple Oppression of Racism, Sexism and Class, (15 years in prison)
Malcolm Braly: Felony Tank (17 years in prison)
Malcolm Braly: It's Cold Out There (17 years in prison)
Malcolm Braly: Shake Him Till He Rattles (17 years in prison)
Hapiste Yazmak (18 years in prison)
Welcome to Hell. (18 years in prison)
Mumia Abu-Jamal: All Things Censored (19 years in prison)
Richard Michael Rossi: Waiting To Die. Life on Death Row. (20 years in prison)
Takaya Shiomi: Kangokuki (19 years 19 months in prison)
Moaeid Abed Al Raheim Abed Al-Samad: From Behind The Window (22 years in prison)
Leonard Peltier: Prison Writings. My Life is my Sun Dance. (23 years in prison)
Imprisoned Intellectuals (24 years in prison)
Stanley "Tookie" Williams: Life in Prison (24 years in prison)
Edward Bunker: Mr Blue. Memoirs of a Renegrade (24 years in prison)
Stanley "Tookie" Williams: Redemption (24 years in prison)
Edward Bunker: Stark (24 years in prison)
The Great Prisoners, The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison (24 years in prison)
Govan Mbeki: The Prison Writings of Govan Mbeki (24 years in prison)
Ahmed Kathrada: Letters from Robben Island.A selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989. (26 years in prison)
Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself (27 years in prison)
Jarvis Jay Masters: Finding Freedom. Writings from Death Row (27 years in prison)
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (27 years in prison)
David Gilbert: No Surrender. Writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner. (27 years in prison)
Jack Henry Abbott : In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison (37 years in prison)
Jack Henry Abbott : My Return (37 years in prison)
Danylo Shumuk: Za Chidnim Obriyam (42 years in prison)
Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America (45 years in prison)
Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testemonies from our imprisoned sisters (45 years in prison)
I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies From the Women of York Prison (45 years in prison)
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