Wonderful London - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Anonymous,
1 / 41The Ghosts of the London Midnight
- 1. The Ghosts of the London Midnight
- 2. The Ugliest Street in London
- 3. Some Curious Performers
- 4. At a Little Dinner in Tatter-Street
- 5. Saturday Night at The Cat
- 6. Girl Labour in London
- 7. The Stable Side of Mayfair
- 8. Opposite a Cabstand
- 9. A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens
- 10. London Society in a 'Flat'
- 11. The Foreign Settlement in Soho
- 12. Rooked in the City
- 13. All over London
- 14. Outsiders of society, and their homes in London
- 15. The London 'Rough'
- 16. Lodgers in the Suburbs
- 17. The Londoner's Spring
- 18. London Life and Country Life
- 19. The Last Man in Town
- 20. Picturesque London
- 21. Sketches from an Office Window
- 22. Half an Hour in a Servants' Registry Office
- 23. A shady industry
- 24. The vampire bride
- 25. Jack's delight
- 26. A police-court Morning Performance
- 27. Cockney Cave-dwellers
- 28. Madman's Paradise
- 29. Gaol-birds at Large
- 30. St. Valentine's Shabby Suit
- 31. A Young Vagabond's Vacation
- 32. A Beggar's Confession
- 33. Birds of a Feather
- 34. 'Home-wreckers'
- 35. A Night With Thieves
- 36. The Sunday Rag-fair in the City
- 37. Our Poor Old Horses
- 38. Retired Tradesmen
- 39. The End of "Jack Ketch's Warren"
- 40. A White-glove Day
- 41. Ladies in the Temple
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"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essays, studded with conversation, on aspects of Victorian London life, seen through the eyes of a middle-class narrator. NOTES: 1 A "ticket of leave" is a document of parole issued to convicts who can be trusted with a degree of freedom. 2 In Chapter three, a "cornopean" is a reed organ. 3 In Chapter twenty, "negus" is a drink made from port mixed with hot water, citrus fruit, spices and sugar. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)
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