One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Rosemary Ashton

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer​ While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the s...

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