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The Victorian Underworld - Softcover

Thomas, Donald

 
9780719557293: The Victorian Underworld
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719557291 ISBN 13: 9780719557293
Verlag: GB Gardners Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Here, through the eyes of its inhabitants, Donald Thomas portrays the nineteenth-century underworld - one of 'night houses' and cigar divans, of street people and entertainers. The underworld was sheltered by an underclass, united with it in a hatred of the police. In its rookeries and padding-kens, gin shops and taverns, hard by the fashionable West End, thrived thieves and beggars, cheats, forgers and pickpockets, preying on rich and poor alike.

Thackery wrote that the wonders of the Victorian underworld 'have been lying by your door and mine ever since we had a door of our own. We had but to go a hundred yards off and see it for ourselves, but we never did.' Her Donald Thomas pushes open that door to reveal a world at once both strange and strangely familiar.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald Thomas is the author of seven biographies, including 'Cardigan of Balaclava' and his best-selling life of 'Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf'. He is also a respected novelist and has won the Gregory Award for his poems 'Points of Contact'. He was born in Somerset, educated at Queen's College, Taunton and Balliol College, Oxford. He holds a personal chair at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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Verlag
GB Gardners Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719557291
ISBN 13 
9780719557293
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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