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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

[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

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Henry Mayhew was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and social investigator, born in London in 1812. He was one of the founding editors of Punch and went on to produce some of the most important journalism of the nineteenth century. His series of articles on 'Labour and the Poor' attracted wide notice and eventually grew into a massive four-volume work. He died in 1887. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Times Literary Supplement and has previously edited Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books and Great Expectations for OWC. He is the author of Victorian Afterlives: the Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (OUP, 2002).

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