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  • The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen

    A Collaborative Journey Through the Early 20th Century

    by Roger Langdon, Ellen Langdon ...
    In 'The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen,' readers are invited on a profound journey across realms of self-discovery, familial bonds, and reflective musings. The anthology seamlessly marries autobiographical introspection with supplementary passages from Langdon's daughter, Ellen, creating a tapestry that intricately weaves both personal narrative and ... Read more

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    by Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ...
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    London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. It originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with the city's street traders, entertainers, thieves and beggars ... Read more

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  • Pandaemonium 1660–1886

    The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

    by Humphrey Jennings ...
    Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain.Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, ... Read more

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  • Dickens's England

    Life in Victorian Times

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  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 9

    by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman, Mary Ann Bird, Elizabeth Gaskell, Catherine Crowe, Emerson Bennett, Amelia B. Edwards, Henry James, John William De Forest, John Gladwyn Jebb, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Wilthew Fenn, Isabella Banks, G. L. Worrall, Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, Lettice Galbraith, M. R. James, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, J. E. P. Muddock ...
    Series Book 9 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899, by British and American authors, including many not previously anthologized. Readers new to this ... Read more

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  • A Brilliant Void

    A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction

    by Various, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dorothy Macardle, George William Russell ...
    An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune. These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland's direction. Science and technology would transform ... Read more

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  • George Cruikshank (Mobi Classics)

    by William Makepeace Thackeray ...
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  • The White Cliffs

    by Alice Duer Miller ...
    Alice Duer Miller's heart-warming novel written entirely in verse. The narrative follows an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman during World War I. This touching and beautiful tale will appeal to lovers of poetry and those with an interest in life during the Great War, and it is not to be missed by discerning collectors of such literature. Many antiquarian books such as this are ... Read more

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  • Selected Journalism 1850-1870

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons, theatres and Inns of Court, journeys to the continent and his childhood in Kent and London are ... Read more

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  • The Detections of Dr. Sam Johnson

    by Lillian de la Torre ...
    Series Book 2 - The Dr. Sam Johnson Mysteries
    Eight exquisite mystery stories set in London, starring Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century.In 1775, as the British Empire is about to be cracked by the earthquake of the American Revolution, twenty English families join in the ghoulish bargain known as a tontine. Each puts £5,000 into a common fund to be held in trust for their children with the terrible ... Read more

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  • The Shrieking Skull and other Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

    by James Skipp Borlase, Christopher Philippo ...
    Thirteen rare tales by the most prolific Victorian Christmas ghost story author, collected and republished for the first time!Move over, Charles Dickens! The author of "A Christmas Carol" may be the most famous Victorian author of Christmas ghost stories, but the king of the genre was James Skipp Borlase (1839-1909), who published dozens of them in obscure British and Australian periodicals during ... Read more

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  • Tales from The Terrific Register: The Book of London

    Edited by Cate Ludlow ...
    Fast-paced, astonishingly gory and always featuring as many corpses as possible, the Terrific Register was a publishing sensation. As a schoolboy, Charles Dickens was never without a copy, and he later recalled how it 'frightened my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly'. This selection contains many tales of London life that will startle the modern reader. Including ... Read more

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