Reproduction of the original: The Mysteries of London by George W.M. Reynolds
Reproduction of the original: The Mysteries of London by George W.M. Reynolds
Reproduction of the original: The Mysteries of London by George W.M. Reynolds
Reynolds wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London. Thomas Miller wrote the third series and Edward L. Blanchard wrote the fourth series.
The Mysteries of London
Annotation. "The Mysteries of London," published weekly from 1844 to 1856, was a best seller and a phenomenon of Victorian book publishing. This new edition, lavishly illustrated with the original...
It was very popular in the Marathi-speaking world, as is evident by numerous references to the text in early 20th-century Marathi literature.
This edition, the first in over 100 years, includes the unabridged text of the complete first series of The Mysteries, including its illustrations, more than fifty in all, and features a new foreword by Victorian scholar Louis James and ...