The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892

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Summary: New Comic books are not Treasures
Review: The Borden Tragedy is a helpful reference for anybody who is studying Lizzie Borden and needs help visualizing how the murderous events on August 4, 1892 likely took place. The story is told in comic book format with black and white drawings, but don't laugh; you won't find material like this in the Sunday morning comics. Although I have never visited Fall River Massachusetts, Rick Geary's wonderful illustrations make me feel like I got an effective inexpensive vacation to the town. This book is a definite buy for any Bordenologist.

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Summary: The Borden Tragedy
Review: The Borden Tragedy is a helpful reference for anybody who is studying Lizzie Borden and needs help visualizing how the murderous events on August 4, 1892 likely took place. The story is told in comic book format with black and white drawings, but don't laugh; you won't find material like this in the Sunday morning comics. Although I have never visited Fall River Massachusetts, Rick Geary's wonderful illustrations make me feel like I got an effective inexpensive vacation to the town. This book is a definite buy for any Bordenologist.

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Summary: Fascinating and highly informative
Review: This book is part of the Treasury of Victorian Murder series, a series of books in graphic novel form that tell the stories of famous nineteenth century murders. This book tells the story of the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, who were brutally hacked to death with an axe; a crime for which their daughter Lizzie was charged, leading to the famous children's rhyme, "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!"

This is a really good book, one that I saw my daughter reading. She is thirteen years old, and was interested in the double-murder, and got this book for herself. She found the book highly informative and certainly not too gruesome.

Reading it for myself, I was impressed with the way the author used the graphic novel format to bring the story to life, but without being too graphic or gruesome. He successfully walked a fine line, presenting the facts of the murders in an even-handed manner, including facts that seem to implicate Lizzie Borden and those that seem to exonerate her. Overall, I found this to be a fascinating and highly informative book.

So, if you are interested in the Lizzie Borden case, and want an easy to read, and yet balanced and informative read, then this book is for you. My thirteen year old daughter and I both highly recommend this book to you.


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Summary: A Good Introduction to the Case
Review: This book provides a quick introduction to this controversial case. It could be described as the "Classics Comics" version, or the "Borden Murders for Dummies". A very good summarization.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Introduction to the Case
Review: This book provides a quick introduction to this controversial case. It could be described as the "Classics Comics" version, or the "Borden Murders for Dummies". A very good summarization.