Description
In the heart of a rapidly modernizing London, a new commercial world takes root at Mitre Court, where foreign speculators conduct shadowy business behind respectable doors. Across the city, an older house in Botolph Lane seems to preserve the past through its lingering, slightly antiquated inhabitants—a foundling and a reclusive misanthrope whose lives echo the building’s precarious survival. As redevelopment and profit-driven ambition reshape the city’s moral and physical landscape, the novel explores how heritage can be erased, commodified, or stubbornly endured. With Charlotte Riddell’s sharp eye for social types and her distinctive blend of realism and uncanny atmosphere, this story turns on the tension between what London builds anew and what it tries to forget.
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Published Jan 1, 1885
330 pages
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First Published
1885
Language
eng
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