Books with author Henry Mayhew Mayhew

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Excerpt from Young Benjamin Franklin; Or the Right Road Through Life: A Story to Show How Young Benjamin Learned the Principles Which Raised Him From a Printer's Boy to the First Embassador of the American Republic; A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own SubjectIT was Walter Scott Who first raised his voice against the folly of writing down to the child, saying, Wisely enough, that the true object among authors for the young should be to write the child up to'the inan. As people talk broken En glish to Frenchmen, and nurses prattle the baby dialect to babies, so it was once thought that boys' books should be essentially puerile - as puerile in subject and puerile in style as the tales about Don't-care Harry (who was torn to pieces by a hungry lion merely because he would persist in declaring that he didn't care about certain things in life), and such-like tender bits of ver dure that used to grace the good old English spelling-books of some quarter of a century back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Image of His Father; Or One Boy Is More Trouble Than a Dozen Girls: Being a Tale of a Young MonkeyIn obedience to this summons, which was accompanied with a smart volley of pokes from the end of a thin German umbrella, the conductor hallooed along the roof to the driver, Hold hard, Jim, near side and the Blackheath omnibus pulled up as sharply as the state of the roads would admit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Mayhew's London: Being Selections From London Labour and the London Poor Henceforward, the majority of writers, by necessity or habit, would be first and foremost city-dwellers; and urban life would give their work a very definite, at times harsh, but extremely individual colouring. They 'would love the city as much as they hated it. Among French writers we think immediately of Charles Baudelaire, whose imagination was deeply stirred by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Paris, in which the ancient and intimate metropolis of his boyhood was dissolving and disappearing; and, on this side of the English Channel, London was at once the nursery and the forcing-house of Charles Dickens's utterly dissimilar and completely anglo-saxon genius. Though it may be wrong to assert that, without London, there would have been no Dickens, it is undoubtedly true that, had he been brought up in any other city or any other period, his novels would have lost something of their peculiar strangeness. Eighteenth-century London was still small enough to be compact and personal; its industries were localized; the structure Of its social life was relatively uncomplicated. During Dickens's lifetime, however, a tremendous influx of population brought with it a corresponding loss of freedom, health and dignity. The individual was submerged in the mass of anonymous toilers, whose whole world was circumscribed by the bricks-and-mortar of whatever nook or cranny they had been shoved into by circum stance. From the ranks Of these little people, these waifs and Oddities and misfits, human rubbish thrown up by the struggle for existence conducted on principles of economic laissez faire, the novelist drew the raw material of those fascinating minor personages who consti tute the all-important background Of any Dickens story - the creepers and the climbers, the grovellers and the schemers, scramb ling over one another in the dark confusion of their pestiferous urban ant's-nest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Mayhew's London: Being Selections From London Labour and the London PoorHenceforward, the majority of writers, by necessity or habit, would be first and foremost city-dwellers; and urban life would give their work a very definite, at times harsh, but extremely individual colouring. They 'would love the city as much as they hated it. Among French writers we think immediately of Charles Baudelaire, whose imagination was deeply stirred by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Paris, in which the ancient and intimate metropolis of his boyhood was dissolving and disappearing; and, on this side of the English Channel, London was at once the nursery and the forcing-house of Charles Dickens's utterly dissimilar and completely anglo-saxon genius. Though it may be wrong to assert that, without London, there would have been no Dickens, it is undoubtedly true that, had he been brought up in any other city or any other period, his novels would have lost something of their peculiar strangeness. Eighteenth-century London was still small enough to be compact and personal; its industries were localized; the structure Of its social life was relatively uncomplicated. During Dickens's lifetime, however, a tremendous influx of population brought with it a corresponding loss of freedom, health and dignity. The individual was submerged in the mass of anonymous toilers, whose whole world was circumscribed by the bricks-and-mortar of whatever nook or cranny they had been shoved into by circum stance. From the ranks Of these little people, these waifs and Oddities and misfits, human rubbish thrown up by the struggle for existence conducted on principles of economic laissez faire, the novelist drew the raw material of those fascinating minor personages who consti tute the all-important background Of any Dickens story - the creepers and the climbers, the grovellers and the schemers, scramb ling over one another in the dark confusion of their pestiferous urban ant's-nest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or a Child Gathering PebblesFerguson, makes no attempt at re-presenting eith er the circumstances or scenery amid which the Shepherd boy passed his youth. To have done this, would have been to have written a biography of the young astronomer, in which the character and incidents must have been literally followed. Such a work faithfully executed would doubtlessly have been sufficiently interesting and instructive, but it would have involved a more intimate know ledge With the facts of Ferguson's boyhood than the' materials left as could possibly have supplied. Moreover, the obj ect of the author. Was not so strictly to teach, as to create in youth a taste for learning - it was to appetize rather than to cram, - to excite a craving that would stir the young mind to seek its own food, instead of accustoming it to be, as it were, stall fed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Excerpt from The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or a Child Gathering PebblesFerguson, makes no attempt at re-presenting eith er the circumstances or scenery amid which the Shepherd boy passed his youth. To have done this, would have been to have written a biography of the young astronomer, in which the character and incidents must have been literally followed. Such a work faithfully executed would doubtlessly have been sufficiently interesting and instructive, but it would have involved a more intimate know ledge With the facts of Ferguson's boyhood than the' materials left as could possibly have supplied. Moreover, the obj ect of the author. Was not so strictly to teach, as to create in youth a taste for learning - it was to appetize rather than to cram, - to excite a craving that would stir the young mind to seek its own food, instead of accustoming it to be, as it were, stall fed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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