A Burglar Caught By A Skeleton And Other Singular Tales From The Victorian Press Clay by Clay, Jeremy instant download after payment.

The Bunny Suicides of the 1880s – extraordinary, bizarre and often morbidly funny stories from the depths of the Victorian press.
HOLIDAYMAKER FIGHTS OFF AFRICAN LION IN WELSH HOTEL ROOM
MAN SWALLOWS MOUSE AND DIES
WIFE DRIVEN MAD BY HUSBAND TICKLING FEET
PALLBEARER KILLED BY COFFIN IN GRAVEYARD
LIBERALS EAT DOG
From the newspaper archives of the British Library, Jeremy Clay has unearthed the long-lost stories that enthralled and appalled Victorian Britain.
Within these pages are the riotous farces and tragedies of 19th-century life, a time when life was hard, pleasures short-lived, and gloating over other people’s misfortune a thoroughly acceptable form of entertainment.
Deliciously appalling and deliriously funny, *The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton* will have you, one way or another, in tears …
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