The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London - Paperback

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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London - Paperback

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London - Paperback

by Judith Flanders
$39.00
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by Judith Flanders (Author)

The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology-railways, street-lighting, and sewers-transformed both the city and the experience of city-living.

From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.

Author Biography

JUDITH FLANDERS is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era. The Victorian City was a finalist for the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Judith is also the author of a crime fiction series, beginning with A Murder of Magpies. She lives in London.

Number of Pages: 560
Dimensions: 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: July 14, 2015
ISBN9781250068262
Author Judith Flanders
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages560
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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