Flanders, Judith, author.
The Victorian city : everyday life in Dickens' London / Judith Flanders.
London : Atlantic Books, 2012.
xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
For much of the century, London's greatest contemporary observer, Charles Dickens, obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures and vices, curiosities and cruelties. In his company, the author leads us through the markets, sewers, rivers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces and chop-houses of the Victorian capital, revealing the city in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the cacophonous cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, from the many uses of a dead horse to the unimaginably grueling working lives of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads this book will view London in the same light again.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge and learning.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Homes and haunts England London.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge London (England)
History.
Learning and scholarship
Literature
Homes
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Alltag
London (England) Social life and customs 19th century.
London (England) Intellectual life 19th century.
London (England) In literature.
Londres (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
England London
London
Location: Library main 284195
Call No.: DA688 .F54 2012
Status: Available
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