London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew (Auteur), Victor Neuburg (Introduction)
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This edition... has a thoughtful, detailed and illuminating introduction. (Andrew Dodgshon, Tribune )

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has a strong sense of the contradictory forces at work in Mayhew's writing, which he compares successively to a peep show, a collection of dramatic monologues and an early work of sociology...This selection is still as long as a fair-sized novel, with helpful notes and a springy, suggestive introduction that captures the energy and variety of Mayhew's world. (John Bowen, Times Literary Supplement. )

Should be required reading not just for lovers of Dickens, but for anyone who wants to understand our 19th century. (Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph )

[A] superb new edition. (Ian Thomson, Evening Standard )

As riveting as any Dickensian novel and as salutary as any social services report, this is a unique insight into the life of the capital over a hundred years ago. (Robert Gwyn Palmer, The Resident )

A collection of some of the best descriptive writing in the English language. (Roy Hattersley, New Statesman )