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 gripping stories of fires, floods and disasters, 'eye-witness' accounts of the great pla...
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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 144 ● ISBN 9780750961660 ● Размер файла 1.5 MB ● редактор Cate Ludlow ● издатель The History Press ● город London ● Страна GB ● опубликованный 2009 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 3199641 ● Защита от копирования Социальный DRM