The Mudfog Papers - Charles Dickens

The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool legs in their houses was only thirty thousand (...) Ten thousand individuals were either destitute of any rest for their legs at all, or passed the whole of their leisure time sitting upon boxes. The Mudfog Papers is a collection of sketches about the very local politics of the town of Mudfog (originally the hometown of... Zobrazit více