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One Hot Summer

Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Ashton, Rosemary

One Hot Summer

One Hot Summer

Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

One Hot Summer

 

The personal and professional lives of Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli in the London of 1858 are explored as a way in to the scandals, shifting ideas, and experimentations of a year in which the Thames was particularly sewage-riddled


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Beschrijving One Hot Summer

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer


ISBN
9780300238662
Pagina's
352
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Yale University Press

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