Night Life, London and Paris-past and Present
Author | : Ralph Nevill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Gambling |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ralph Nevill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Gambling |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jerry White |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2009-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1407013076 |
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Author | : Joachim Schlör |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780236190 |
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those who toiled at work and those who caroused in restaurants, pubs, and cafes. Nights in the Big City explores this change and offers a stirring portrait of the secrets and mysteries a city can hold when the sun goes down. Sifting through countless police and church archives alongside first-hand accounts, Schlör sets out on his own explorations with a head full of histories, exploring the boulevards and side-streets of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Bill Brandt and André Kertész, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City is a milestone in the cultural history of the city.
Author | : Anna Cottrell |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1474425674 |
Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensity
Author | : R. Nevill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : A G Printing & Publishing |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2024-07-07 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : |
There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words. There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade. They used to sell postcards on the Boulevard St Michel. The curious thing was that the postcards were sold in sealed packets as pornographic ones, but were actually photographs of chateaux on the Loire; the buyers did not discover this till too late, and of course never complained. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk. The filth of their room was such that one could smell it on the floor below. According to Madame F., neither of the Rougiers had taken off their clothes for four years.
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Modernista |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2024-04-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9180948634 |
Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
Author | : Michael FitzGerald |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2011-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075246678X |
Ragged London describes life in the rookeries of London, where forty people would live together in one room. Although life was a constant struggle against famine, disease and violence, the people enjoyed a closeness that was moer than the result of overcrowding. Their lives were lived entirely within the 'mean streets' of their little corner of London. They were born and raised within the rookeries, earned their meagre living there, enjoyed life as best they could, dressed in the latest fashion, got married, had children, died and were buried there. The lack of cooking facilities led to them inventing the takeaway, and there was absolutely no sanitation. In the poorest district of all, St Giles, only a single water pump serviced the entire population. It was a closed world, although the population explosion of nineteenth-century London led to millions of new arrivals in the already-congested rookery districts. The areas were lawless to a degree that dwarfs contemporary concerns about crime. Though life as cheap in the rookeries, they produced some of the best soldiers and sailors in the British armed forces.
Author | : Rohan McWilliam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 019882341X |
The first history of the West End of London, showing how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry shaped modern culture and consumer society, and made London a world centre of entertainment and glamour.
Author | : David Charles Rose |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443887633 |
Why was Paris so popular as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century? Using French, English and American sources, this first volume of a trilogy provides a possible answer with a detailed exploration of both the city and its communities, who, forming a varied cast of colourful characters from duchesses to telephonists, artists to beggars, and dancers to diplomats, crowd the stage. Through the throng moves Oscar Wilde as the connecting thread: Wilde exploratory, Wilde triumphant, Wilde ruined. This use of Wilde as a central figure provides both a cultural history of Paris and a view of how he assimilated himself there. By interweaving fictional representations of Paris and Parisians with historical narrative, Paris of the imagination is blended with the topography of the city described by Victor Hugo as ‘this great phantom composed of darkness and light’. This original treatment of the belle époque is couched in language accessible to all who wish to explore Paris on foot or from an armchair.