Dreamers Rise

Henry Mayhew, the great chronicler of 19th-century London's working poor, collected the following tale in the course of an interview wit...

The Plague: During all the late summer and throughout the autumn there could daily be seen moving along the road skirting the cliffs above t...

I found revisiting The Plague as La peste considerably more difficult than re-reading The Counterfeiters as Les faux-monnayeurs. I sai...