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London Labour & the London Poor
Wydawnictwo:
Wordsworth
Oprawa: Miękka
Opis
London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority,' is to cross sides of the same street'.
Szczegóły
Tytuł
London Labour & the London Poor
Autor
Henry Mayhew
Wydawnictwo
Temat
Rok wydania
2008
Oprawa
Miękka
Ilość stron
636
Format
12.5x20.0cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9781840226195
Rodzaj
Książka
Stan
Nowy
EAN
9781840226195
Data premiery
2019-06-25
Kraj produkcji
GB
Producent
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