London's Underworld

By (author) Thomas Holmes Introduction by Iain Sinclair

Publication date:

01 April 2006

Publisher

Anthem Press

ISBN-13: 9780857288806

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Both a thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review, 'London’s Underworld' is driven by the author's conflicting feelings of admiration for the rebellious spirit which frees these criminals from the laws of reserved Victorian Society and also pity for the restless, violent attitudes which leave them stranded there alone.

List of Illustrations; Introduction by Iain Sinclair; Preface; My Friends and Acquaintances; London's Underworld; The Nomads; Lodging-Houses; Furnished Apartments; The Disabled; Women in the Underworld; Marriage in the Underworld; Brains in the Underworld; Play in the Underworld; On the Verge of the Underworld; In Prisons OFT; Unemployed and Unemployable; Suggestions

London's Underworld

By (author) Thomas Holmes Introduction by Iain Sinclair

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ISBN-13: 9780857288806

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