Life in London: Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis. This item is unavailable.Life in London: Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis

This BrambleHill edition includes:

• Footnotes. To make the text more accessible
• Completely re-typeset. So the text is clean and legible, not just a blurry PDF scan like most other editions.

"Life in London is death", exclaims one of the characters in Pierce Egan's best-selling comic novel Life in London.

Egan was known widely as the most knowledgeable and popular sports writers of his era, mainly focusing on boxing and horse racing. Life in London details the heady excesses of the late Regency period with trips to fashionable Hyde Park, Almacks, a masquerade. But Egan also traverses the "back slums" and "sports his blunt" at a dog fight that features the famous fighting monkey Jacco Macacco.

Egan invigorates his novel with contemporary slang, and offers a unique look at how the upper class debauched themselves on a nightly basis in a time before the Victorians came along and made everything boring. 

The novel was adapted into a BBC radio play by Dan Tetsell and had as its cast:

Pierce Egan ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Corinthian Tom ...... Greg Wise
Jerry Hawthorn ...... Mark Gatiss
Bob Logic ...... James Bachman
Corinthian Kate ...... Amanda Abbington
Old Hawthorn ...... Christopher Douglas
Mrs Belcher ...... Laura Shavin
Mr Primefit ...... Dave Lamb