A Lesson Before Dying


A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

In this story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s, Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and is sentenced to hang, and Wiggins`s job, once he realizes the impossibility of overturning the verdict, is to prepare the boy for death. Although, as a nonbeliever, Wiggins at first finds himself in competition with the minister for the boy`s attention, he eventually comes to see that the cultivation of any instinct of love--human or religious--is the essence of salvation, both for Jefferson and himself. Ernest J. Gaines`s morally wrenching novel has become a classic of American literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.

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A Lesson Before Dying - ISBN: 9780822217855 - Author(s): Romulus Linney|Ernest J. Gaines - Publisher: Dramatist`s Play Service
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