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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"From the 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,...
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