London's labyrinth of ‘lost souls’

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The London described in literature was not, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, the kind of city you would want to get lost in. (BBC Culture)

London's labyrinth of ‘lost souls’

London is a popular setting for literature – one often characterised by crime, confusion, filth and vice, and not just in Dickens’ time. Lucy Scholes explains.

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