London Labour and the London Poor (Oxford World's Classics),Used

London Labour and the London Poor (Oxford World's Classics),Used

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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 firsthand account of costermongers and streetsellers, of sewerscavengers and chimneysweeps, creating an intimate and detailed portrait that offered unprecedented insight into their daytoday 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 crosssection of the original volumes and their evocative illustrations, including among other features an introduction by Robert DouglasFairhurst 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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