<p><i>''...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich''</i><br><br>Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social observation, and the ultimate account of urban life - including an extraordinary description of the city from a hot air balloon.<br><br>Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.<br><br>Henry May
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The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London. Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city''s...
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An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.
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Since 2008, financial firms have paid, in aggregate, in excess of $320 billion in fines related to misconduct.
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<b><i>''Little Nothings</i> delivers some searing and uncomfortable truths about motherhood and female friendships''Sarah J. Naughton</b>''<b>A true single-sitting read'' </b>Alex...
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