by George Theodore Wilkinson · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853267741
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«The Newgate Calendar» is the true crime anthology edited by George Theodore Wilkinson, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback and in English.
The book brings together chronicles originally published in the 18th century, one of the earliest examples of lurid narratives of real crimes. It includes notorious criminals: from Sawney Beane, head of a cannibal family, to the Reverend Dodd, chaplain to the king and a first-rate swindler, with the London underworld as its setting.
Edition of 352 pages, published on 11 June 1997 in the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature series.
For readers interested in British criminal history and 18th-century London.
