Hard Streets
Jacqueline Riding
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty.
Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London at the turn of the twentieth century. Breathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.
Rezensionen
Marvellous and timely ... Jacqueline Riding makes sensitive and imaginative use of a wide range of often difficult and neglected sources ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction
Deft and richly detailed
An excellent new biography
<b>Praise for <i>Hogarth</i>: </b>Wonderfully meandering and original
Kundenbewertungen
Charlie Chaplin, theatre, Victorian history books, Victorian London, history books, Working-Class history, British history books, drama books, World War One