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London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor

Mayhew, Henry
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

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Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0199697574
ISBN13: 9780199697571
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 18 2012
Pages: 528
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
An extraordinary work of investigative journalism, literature, and sociology, London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles for a local newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. By turns alarming, touching, and funny, the pages of London Labour and the London Poor exposed a previously hidden world. Henry Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews that provided a first-hand account of costermongers and street-sellers, of sewer-scavengers and chimney-sweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered unprecedented insight into their day-to-day struggle for survival. Combined with Mayhew's comprehensive data gathering, these stories have an immediacy that owes much to his sympathetic understanding and effective literary style. This new selection offers a cross-section of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst that illuminates Mayhew's life and career, the genesis and development of the book, and its influence on contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley.

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