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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines


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Set in the fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the late 1940s, A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of Jefferson, a twenty-one-year-old uneducated black field worker wrongfully accused and convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man, and sentenced to death by electrocution. At his trial, Jefferson’s court-appointed defense attorney argues that Jefferson lacks the intelligence to plan a robbery, and that, even if he had been involved in the killing, sentencing him to death would be like putting a hog in the electric chair.... More

About the Author
About the Novel
  A Brief Synopsis
Summaries and Commentaries
  Chapters 1-4
  Chapters 5 & 6
  Chapters 7 & 8
  Chapters 9-12
  Chapters 13-15
  Chapter 16
  Chapters 17 & 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapters 20 & 21
  Chapters 22 & 23
  Chapters 24-26
  Chapter 27
  Chapter 28
  Chapter 29
  Chapter 30
  Chapter 31
 

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