Grub St. Stripped Bare: The Scandalous Lives & Pornographic Works of the Original Grub St. Writers

Grub St. Stripped Bare: The Scandalous Lives & Pornographic Works of the Original Grub St. Writers

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Philip Pinkus

Format: Hardback

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This book is an account of Ôsubliterary London between 1680 and 1710Õ. It reveals the scandalous lives and pornographic works of the original Grub St. writers, together with the bottle songs which led to their drunkenness, the shameless pamphleteering which led them to Newgate Prison, and the continual pandering to public taste which put them among the first almost to earn a fitful living from their writing alone. It features such notorious figures as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dunton, Edmund Curll, and Daniel Defoe, and exposes the dark and dirty side of the literary world of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries., Condition Remarks: Very Good, , Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, Pages intact, no marks, notes or highlighting, ,
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Philip Pinkus

Format: Hardback

Remarks on Condition :


This book is an account of Ôsubliterary London between 1680 and 1710Õ. It reveals the scandalous lives and pornographic works of the original Grub St. writers, together with the bottle songs which led to their drunkenness, the shameless pamphleteering which led them to Newgate Prison, and the continual pandering to public taste which put them among the first almost to earn a fitful living from their writing alone. It features such notorious figures as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dunton, Edmund Curll, and Daniel Defoe, and exposes the dark and dirty side of the literary world of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries., Condition Remarks: Very Good, , Dust Jacket: good with some shelf wear, Pages intact, no marks, notes or highlighting, ,