Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer

Gebundenes Buch

Sweeney Todd

The Barber of Fleet Street

Beschreibung

Sweeney Todd runs a barber shop on London's Fleet Street. Secretly, Todd murders his patrons, turning them over to his accomplice who uses their flesh to make her popular meat pies. When a sailor goes missing, his friends follow a trail of clues that ends at Todd's door. Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street is an influential penny dreadful novel.

Autor

Thomas Peckett Prest (1810-1859) was a British journalist, hack writer, and musician. He is best known for his collaborations with James Malcolm Rymer, coauthoring Varney the Vampire (1847) and The String of Pearls (1847), a novel also known as Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street. Prest worked as a writer for London publisher Edward Lloyd, earning a reputation for lampooning the novels of Charles Dickens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 1150
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888974452
• Artikelnr.: 68588108