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Overview
Each of the book's six chapters opens with a look at the correspondence columns of daily newspapers and goes on, with a keen eye for the hidden link, to pursue a particular theme. Locations shift from Leicester Square and the Thames embankment to the Normandy coast and the Paris morgue and feature, along with famous names, a lesser known company of acrobats, convicts, aesthetes, 'philistines, ' and mysterious suicides. Rare historical and bibliographical information is presented in an engaging narrative form, while plentiful black-and-white illustrations reveal the wit and subtlety of contemporary artists.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780226775388
- ISBN-10: 0226775380
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: October 1989
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.05 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 222
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