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Tales from the Hanging Court | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
Buy New: $25.50
You Save: $29.50 (54%)
Sales Rank: 1606888
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340913746
Dewey Decimal Number: 345.42107
EAN: 9780340913741
ASIN: 0340913746
Publication Date: February 8, 2007
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Product Description
From everyday customs to violent transgression, Tales from the Hanging Court paints a fascinating and vivid picture of what it was like to live in London 200 years ago, from the dark alleys to the glittering thoroughfares.
Drawing on the Old Baily archives from 1674-1834, the authors recreate the real-life and death dramas on which Defoe, Fielding, and Dickens based their novels. They uncover the traditions--and aberrations--that colored daily life in a society where it was easier to witness an execution than to attend the theater.
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