London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor

Henry Mayhew

2136 pages first pub 1861 (editions)

nonfiction classics history informative slow-paced

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Assembled from a series of newspaper articlesfirst published in the newspaper Morning Chronicle throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed four-volume survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groun...

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