The Great Stink
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547540085 (0547540086)
Publish date: October 2nd 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Modern
Like her other novel, [book:The Nature of Monsters], Clare Clark accomplishes two things with The Great Stink. One, is a powerful (and queasily wonderful) evocation of the sights, sounds and smells of a by-gone London. In this case, the city of the Victorian Age c. 1860. The greatest city in the wor...
Now that I am a mother of two small children I have much less time to do anything for myself. Since I enjoyed THE NATURE OF MONSTERS so much, I picked this up as soon as I could and although I appreciated the detail and seemingly well-researched information that Clark put forth, I wish I had read s...
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