Penned In Prison

Prison Epistles. St. Paul, Imprisoned in the town of Caesarea. Le Morte d'Arthur. Malory, Imprisoned in the Marshalsea prison Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan 12 years' imprisonment. Bedford County Gaol, Don Quixote. Cervantes Captured by Ottoman pirates Enslaved in Algiers The Travels of Marco Polo. Rustichello da Pisa Prisoner in Genoa The Prince, Machiavelli Arrested, tortured, imprisoned By the Medici History of the World Sir Walter Raleigh 13 years, held in the Tower of London. To Althea from Prison Lovelace "Stone walls doe not a prison make nor iron bars a cage." Prisoner in Gatehouse Prison Justine the Marquis de Sade Imprisoned in the Bastille Sent by Napoleon to an insane asylum Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, autobiography Imprisoned on St. Helena Three weeks before his death, "I die before my time, Murdered by the English oligarchy and its assassin." De Profundis.Wilde. Two years hard labour in Reading Gaol. The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gandhi Served time in Yerwada Jail. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn Eight years forced labour in a Siberian camp. The Enormous Room (e.e. cummings) : Held in a POW camp, the Dépôt de Triage Letters from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr 11 days in the Alabama jail Soul on Ice. Cleaver Folsom State Prison and San Quentin, Conversations with Myself Mandela 27 years in prison on Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison, Victor Verster Prison. Our Lady of the Flowers. Genet 'I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling. My cell is so sweet.' Fresnes prison, France The House of the Dead, Dostoyevsky Four years in exile in a Siberian labour camp A roll call of suffering A roll call of writing A roll call of writing Out of suffering