The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: V. 1: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes [Audiobook] download free by Henry Mayhew
- Listen audiobook: The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: V. 1: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
- Author: Henry Mayhew
- Release date: 2005/8/29
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Crime and Thriller
- ISBN: 9780486440064
- Rating: 8.48 of 10
- Votes: 371
- Review by: Christina Kuykendall
- Review rating: 9.18 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 5H17M18S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, WAV, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, MP3 (compression ZIP, 7Z, RAR, ARJ, CPIO, CHM)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M20S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed 'to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves - giving a literal description of their labour, their earnings, their trials and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language.' With his collaborators, Mayhew explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humbler residents. Their stories revealed aspects of city life virtually unknown to literate society.A sprawling, four-volume history resulted from Mayhew's investigations. This extract focuses on the criminal class-pickpockets, prostitutes, rag pickers, and vagrants, whose true stories of degradation, horror, and desperation rival Dickensian fiction. A classic reference source for sociologists, historians, and criminologists, Mayhew's work is immensely readable. As Thackeray wrote, these urban vignettes conjure up 'a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, True Crime Books, Urban Communities, True Crime Biographies, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Poverty & Unemployment, Social & Cultural History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.63 USD
- Dimensions: 138x210x20mm
- Weight: 439.99g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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