The Literary Companion to Low Life - Hardcover
The author's second anthology of fiction, factual writing and poetry concerning 'lowlife' in its various form. Material collected from streets, pubs, and below stairs over the centuries by approximately sixty authors, including George Orwell, Thomas Dekker, Henry Mayhew, Martin Luther, William Blake, Ben Johnson, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy , Gorky and Shakespeare, is interspersed by Dekker's "The Canters Dictionarie", and the New Newgate Calendar.
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- PublisherSinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1856193934
- ISBN 13 9781856193931
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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