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Sweeney Todd in 'The String of Pearls' (Includes Original Art, Essays and Audio. Fully annotated enhanced E-Book)
Sweeney Todd in 'The String of Pearls' (Includes Original Art, Essays and Audio. Fully annotated enhanced E-Book)
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Sweeney Todd runs a popular business shaving the wealthy in Fleet Street. When a customer carrying a string of valuable pearls disappears after visiting the shop, suspicions are aroused that Todd may be practicing more than just hairdressing...
'The String of Pearls' - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. The main antagonist of the story is the infamous Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," who here makes his literary debut.
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett. Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's, and is connected to Lovett's bakers shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In the event they are alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting the victim's throat with his straight razor.
'The String of Pearls' became a staple of Victorian melodrama. It was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The musical was adapted for the screen in 2007 as a musical film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
After 157 years of obscurity, here it is, the book that started it all, presented for the first time in stunning E-book format with original illustrations and extras.
*Annotated with original essay "What is a Penny Dreadful?"
*Links to free, full-length audio recordings of 'The String of Pearls.'
*Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Text-to-Speech features.
'The String of Pearls' - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. The main antagonist of the story is the infamous Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," who here makes his literary debut.
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett. Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's, and is connected to Lovett's bakers shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In the event they are alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting the victim's throat with his straight razor.
'The String of Pearls' became a staple of Victorian melodrama. It was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The musical was adapted for the screen in 2007 as a musical film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
After 157 years of obscurity, here it is, the book that started it all, presented for the first time in stunning E-book format with original illustrations and extras.
*Annotated with original essay "What is a Penny Dreadful?"
*Links to free, full-length audio recordings of 'The String of Pearls.'
*Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Text-to-Speech features.
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