{"product_id":"book-cuvu","title":"London Labour and the London Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor \u003c\/i\u003eis a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the nineteenth-century poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, a founder and editor of the satirical magazine \u003ci\u003ePunch\u003c\/i\u003e, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society. We encounter street entertainers, ‘pure finders,’ cabinetmakers, gingerbread sellers, ‘screeve-fakers,’ swindlers, and burglars. We hear accounts from toshers finding items in sewers and people attempting to train pigs to dance and witness the sale of everything from gilt watches and chickweed to needles, dog collars, and eel soup. It is a remarkable work, said to have inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, who described it as “a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49378512077104,"sku":"BDcuvu","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/113712-cuvu-Square.jpg?v=1734945053","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cuvu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}