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Livros
George Reynolds

The Mysteries of London

The Mysteries of London is a “penny blood” classic. There are many plots in the story, but the overarching purpose is to reveal different facets of life in London, from its seedy underbelly to its over-indulgent and corrupt aristocrats. The Mysteries of London are considered to be among the seminal works of the Victorian “urban mysteries” genre, a style of sensational fiction which adapted elements of Gothic novels — with their haunted castles, innocent noble damsels in distress and nefarious villains — to produce stories which instead emphasized the poverty, crime, and violence of a great metropolis, complete with detailed and often sympathetic descriptions of the lives of lower-class lawbreakers and extensive glossaries of thieves' cant, all interwoven with a frank sexuality not usually found in popular fiction of the time.
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Publicação original
2020
Ano da publicação
2020
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