Sweeney Todd: The String Of Pearls Av James Malcolm Rymer

<div><p><strong>Fully revised Second Edition. With a new Introduction and Bibliography by Dick Collins.</strong></p></div><div><p>The exploits of Sweeney Todd, ¿<em>The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</em>¿, have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. <em>The String of Pearls</em> - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the <em>Penny Dreadfuls</em>. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker''s <em>Dracula</em>, but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005.</p></div><div><p>The one great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was - or was it possibly the work of more than one man? In his new introduction to this fully revised second edition, Dick Collins, by mean

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