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24%OFFKelly Grovier - The Gaol - 9780719561337 - V9780719561337
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The Gaol

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Description for The Gaol Paperback. The extraordinary human story of London's most infamous prison Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 246.

For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills, and where flamboyant highwaymen like Claude Duval and James Maclaine made legions of women swoon. While London's theatres came and went, the gaol endured as Londons unofficial stage. From the Peasants Revolt to the Great Fire, it was at Newgate that England's greatest dramas unfolded.

By piecing together the lives of forgotten figures as well ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719561337
SKU
V9780719561337
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Kelly Grovier
Kelly Grovier was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and at Oxford University, where he wrote his doctorate on the eighteenth-century philosopher and adventurer `Walking` Stewart. He is the author of A lens in the palm `Carcanet, January 2008` and a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and The Observer. He is the co-founder of the scholarly ... Read more

Reviews for The Gaol
'Gripping . . . Grovier's treatment of the material organisation of the place is excellent . . . Newgate's role in the evolution of London, in the creation of crime in the public imagination, in the development of the concept of the prison, is unmatched, and Grovier relates it compellingly'
Daily Telegraph
'The author has a keen eye ... Read more

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