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BOYS WILL BE BOYS
THE STORY OF SWEENEY TODD, DEADWOOD DICK, SEXTON BLAKE, BILLY BUNTER, DICK BARTON ET AL. |
| By: |
E. S. Turner |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.00 |
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£12.60 |
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£1.40 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571287875 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571287871 |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
16 February, 2012 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Offers an insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the "Boys' Weekly" papers commonly known as penny dreadfuls. |
| Synopsis: |
E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the "Boys' Weekly" papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls'. "A classic of its kind...[Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily resolved in the next issue: 'With one bound Jack was free'. Social history had never been as much fun or, with three extra printings in its first week - such was the demand - as profitable'. (Jonathan Sale, "Guardian"). "Some people felt that E.S. Turner may have invented a new kind of book - the popular social history, very British, very funny, but written with a glistening elegance". (Andrew O'Hagan, "London Review of Books"). |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
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Returnable |
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