Download or read book Street Life in London Classic Reprint written by Adolphe Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Street Life in London Street Life in London, first published in 12 monthly parts beginning in February, 1877, is in the' tradition of such Victorian landmarks in social reporting as Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor. Like that most famous of its predecessors, Street Life was in effect a kind of non-government inspired blue book on social conditions in the metropolis, priced low enough for the very worker whose-(plight it depicted to afford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life in the London Streets Or Struggles for Daily Bread Classic Reprint written by Richard Rowe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life in the London Streets, or Struggles for Daily Bread It is to be regretted that in consequence of the premature death of the Author, during the passage of his work through the press, some of the latter sheets have necessarily been corrected by other hands, who have taken the greatest possible care to give an accurate reproduction of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stories of the Streets of London Classic Reprint written by H. Barton Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of the Streets of London The Fleet River in the Olden Time - Jonathan Wild's House - Stories of the Fleet Prison and Fleet Marriages - Farringdon Market - Goldsmith in Green-arbour Court - Anecdotes of Authors page: 7 5-86. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Street Life in London written by Adolphe Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street Life in London (1877-78), by journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson, aimed to reveal by the innovative use of photography and essays the conditions of a life of poverty in London. Now regarded as a pioneering photo-text and a foundational work of socially conscious photography - "one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history" (The Photobook: A History) - Street Life in London failed to achieve commercial success in its own time. In this groundbreaking book, we see the start, but not the conclusion, of a conversation between text and image in the service of education, reportage and social justice. This newly designed and typeset edition contains the full text and makes available to a contemporary audience Thomson's powerful images in their original size and rich colour.
Download or read book The Streets of London written by John Thomas Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Streets of London: With Anecdotes of Their Celebrated Residents Parliamentarian General - Club at the Essex Head - The kit-cat Club Tonson expelled from it 21213am Jill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Paved with Gold written by Augustus Mayhew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paved With Gold: Or the Romance and Reality of the Streets of London IT has often struck me that if a truthful account were written of the miseries of criminal life, it would, by destroying the fancied ro mance of wickedness, have a quicker effect in checking juvenile de pravity than any moral appeals that could be made to the under standings of the evil-disposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mendicant Wanderers Through the Streets of London written by John Thomas Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mendicant Wanderers Through the Streets of London: With Portraits of the Most Remarkable, Drawn From Life By this act, persons delivered from gaol, or acquitted of felonies, who could n the usual fees, were to be licensed by the keeper to raise such fees by begging space of six weeks, on pain of whipping for default of such licence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Historic Streets of London written by Lilian Russan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Streets of London: An Alphabetical Handbook Very few liberties have been taken with the text of the Old authors, to whose labours we are greatly indebted, but some have been essential to clarity. TO living authors from whom we have drawn information, we tender our best thanks. The full titles of the works, the prices (when available), and the names and addresses of the publishers are given on the following page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lights and Shadows of London Life Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of London Life, Vol. 2 of 2 London is proverbial all the world over for the number and ingenuity of the tricks which are daily practised in it; but perhaps there is no department of metropolitan roguery in which a greater amount of ingenuity is displayed than in that of begging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life and Labour of the People in London Vol 2 written by Charles Booth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Labour of the People in London, Vol. 2: Streets and Population Classified IN passing from the special study of East London to a review of the whole Metropolis the method of inquiry into the condition of the people was slightly changed. In dealing with East London (and afterwards with Central London and Battersea) the unit taken was the family. In extending over the larger area the street has been substituted as a working basis. Instead of noting the number of children going to school from each household with the employment and social position of its head, we have contented ourselves with stating the number of children street by street, dividing them as to class according to what is known of the parents, but giving only general partien lars of the occupations. The result is, that the division of the population according to the conditions under which they live has been maintained, but that according to employment has been dropped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Victorian City written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English 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, sewers, 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.
Download or read book Lights and Shadows of London Life Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by James Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of London Life, Vol. 1 of 2 The interest which continues to be felt in everything connected with metropolitan society and manners, in conjunction with the remark able success which his previous works on similar subjects has met with, has induced the Author to present the public with two more volumes illustrative of London Life. The work, it will be observed, is formed on the same plan and written in the same style as The Great Metropolis, and Travels in Town; to which six volumes, indeed, it may. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky written by Patrick Hamilton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYRB Classics presents 3 darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment, set in a run-down London pub after WWI—from the author of the Hitchcock classics Gaslight and Rope. “Bleak and brilliant. . . an authentic lost classic.” —The Guardian Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes, and just plain losers who are looking for love—or just an ear to bend—Hamilton’s novels are a triumph of deft characterization, offbeat humor, unlikely compassion, and raw suspense. In recent years, Hamilton has undergone a remarkable revival, with his champions including Doris Lessing, David Lodge, Nick Hornby, and Sarah Waters. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a tale of obsession and betrayal that centers on a seedy pub in a run-down part of London. Bob the waiter skimps and saves and fantasizes about writing a novel, until he falls for the pretty prostitute Jenny and blows it all. Kindly Ella, Bob’s co-worker, adores Bob, but is condemned to enjoy nothing more than the attentions of the insufferable Mr. Eccles; Jenny, out on the street, is out of love, hope, and money. We watch with pity and horror as these three vulnerable and yet compellingly ordinary people meet and play out bitter comedies of longing and frustration. Included: The Midnight Bell (1929) The Siege of Pleasure (1932) The Plains of Cement (1934)
Download or read book Up and Down the London Streets Classic Reprint written by Mark Lemon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Up and Down the London Streets As we had the honour to be born within the sound of Bow bells, a fellow-citizen of Sir Thomas More, John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Johnny Gilpin, we have, e'en from our boyish days, ' taken pleasure to seek in books and odd places the story of Old London City; and having come to the belief that what has had for us so many attrae tions might possibly be made to interest others, we have compiled the following pages; and we desire it to be understood, that we only ask recog nition for our industry, and not commendation for any original discoveries. We have freely gleaned from antiquaries, poets, historians, and compilers who have preceded us, thereby creating, mayhap, a desire for more knowledge of the old City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book London Characters and the Humorous Side of London Life written by Henry Mayhew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from London Characters and the Humorous Side of London Life: With Upwards of Seventy Illustrations Volve. Of these men and women who pass and repass me in the crowded street, one is an only son, on whose progress in life his bereaved mother has staked her happiness; another is the ne'er-do-weel husband of' a spirit-broken, but still loving wife; a third is a husband that is to be; a fourth' is the father of a big hungry family-every one, from peer to beggar, is the living centre of some social scheme. They are all so much alike, and yet so widely different; their stories are so wonderfully similar in their broad outlines, and yet So strangely unlike in their minute particulars. Just as one man's face is like another's, so is the story of his life no two faces are exactly alike, yet all have many points in common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Night Side of London Classic Reprint written by J. Ewing Ritchie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Night Side of London The most crowded city streets, that he remained standing at the door the whole of the first day of his London existence, because he waited until the crowd had gone. A man, says Max Schlesinger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Street of Faces written by Charles Vince and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Street of Faces: Glimpses of Town The House without a History; The Gulls of Hampstead; The Gates of London; The Open Air Salesman; A War Office Window; Pierre Loti and Kensington Gardens; The Smallest House in the World; Funeral Games About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
