Jack the Ripper
The Definitive History
Rev. Pbk. Ed edition
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Word Count
102,000 words, Guess
Page Count
408 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivejackripperdefini0000begg
- ISBN-101405807121
- ISBN-139781405807128
- Goodreads62161
- LibraryThing83120
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004048915
- OCLC Control Number1082247856
- Better World Books9781405807128
- Open LibraryOL8407682M
Classifications
- LCCHV6535.G6L618 2004
- LCCHV6535.G6 L6173 2004
- LCCHV6535.G6 L663 2013
and 1 more
- LCCHV6535.G6 L618 1989
Description
England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency… all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear. The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History is not yet another attempt to identify the culprit. Instead, the book sets the murders in their historical context, examining in depth what East London was like in 1888, how it came to be that way, and how events led to one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
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