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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes

The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
By Henry Mayhew

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #15597 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-10-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 416 pages

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Synopsis
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in nineteenth-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humbler residents. A sprawling, four-volume history resulted; this extract focuses on the criminal class, whose true stories of degradation, horror, and desperation rival Dickensian fiction.

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Modern History5
This book confirms that what is happening NOW is not new. Adultery - prostitution is as old as time.
Only the names have changed.
A look at today through the eyes of the past proves that people have always lied - cheated - commited adultery and gone behind the backs of their partners.
This book is PROOF that you always HURT the one you love - and that you didnt realise what you HAD until you LOST it.
A heavy read but with a message we could all learn from.
It educates and entertains...