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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise | PB | VeryGood
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- ISBN
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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805078495
ISBN-13
9780805078497
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45022976
Product Key Features
Book Title
Italian Boy : a Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Europe / Great Britain / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
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Praise for Sarah Wise'sThe Italian Boy: "An immaculately researched and artfully constructed narrative shows how a band of body snatchers went from taking dead bodies to making them valuable... to hear Wise tell it, pre-Victorian England [was] a Hobbesian universe of want and pestilence, where paupers were literally shoved from parish to parish. Wise tells their story so well..." -- The Washington Post "Thoroughly fascinating." --The Boston Globe "Most unforgettable... Wise captures the complications of the era in vivid detail." -- The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Praise for Sarah Wise's The Italian Boy: "An immaculately researched and artfully constructed narrative shows how a band of body snatchers went from taking dead bodies to making them valuable... to hear Wise tell it, pre-Victorian England [was] a Hobbesian universe of want and pestilence, where paupers were literally shoved from parish to parish. Wise tells their story so well..." -- The Washington Post "Thoroughly fascinating." --The Boston Globe "Most unforgettable... Wise captures the complications of the era in vivid detail." -- The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3/09421
Synopsis
"A work of great skill and sympathy, a meditation on one of the sorrowful mysteries once to be found on the streets of London. For any student of the city and its secret life, it is indispensable reading." -Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London) Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, begging among the livestock, hawkers, and con men. When his body was sold to a medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil a furtive trade in human corpses carried out by "resurrection men" who killed to satisfy the first rule of the cadaver market: the fresher the body, the higher the price. Historian Sarah Wise reconstructs not only the boy's murder but the chaos and squalor of his world. In 1831 London, the poor were desperate and the wealthy petrified, the population swelling so fast that class borders could not hold. All the while, early humanitarians were attempting to protect the disenfranchised, the courts were establishing norms of punishment, and doctors were pioneering the science of anatomy. As vivid and intricate as a novel by Charles Dickens, "The Italian Boy" restores to history the lives of the very poorest Londoners and offers an unparalleled account of England's great metropolis at the brink of a major transformation.
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