{"product_id":"2940150442467","title":"The Mysteries of London Vol 1 of 4","description":"The Mysteries of London is a penny dreadful or city mysteries novel begun by George W. M. Reynolds in 1844. Reynolds wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London. Thomas Miller wrote the third series and Edward L. Blanchard wrote the fourth series of this immensely popular title.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Angelo in Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors writes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReynolds had read Eugene Sue while in Paris and was particularly impressed by his novel Les Mystères de Paris (The Mysteries of Paris). It inspired Reynolds to write and publish a penny part serial The Mysteries of London (1845), in which he paralleled Sue's tale of vice, depravity, and squalor in the Parisian slums with a sociological story contrasting the vice and degradation of London working-class life with the luxury and debaucheries of the hedonistic upper crust. An early socialist and a Chartist sympathizer, Reynolds had a genuine social conscience, and he contrived to stitch into the pages of his books diatribes against social evils and class inequities. (79)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstalments were published weekly and contained a single illustration and eight pages of text printed in double columns. The weekly numbers were later bound in cloth covers with a fresh title page and table of contents and offered as complete works of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Reynolds quit The Mysteries of London, he began a new title: The Mysteries of the Court of London, which ran from 1848 until 1856.","brand":"Mauro Liistro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075791929584,"sku":"2940150442467","price":3.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150442467_p0.jpg?v=1763745636","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150442467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}