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All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story

Walter Besant

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . and his indignation because she herself could put by so much, seemed pathetic.

She walked about the sad and monotonous streets of East London, reflecting upon these subjects. She did not know where she was, nor the name of any street; in a general way she knew that most of the street probably belonged to herself, and that it was an inexpressibly dreary street. When she was tired she asked her way back again. No one insulted her; no one troubled her; no one turned aside to look at her. When she went home she sat silently, for the most part, in the common sitting-room. The boarding-house was inexpressibly stupid except when the sprightly young mechanic was present, and she was even angry with herself for finding his society pleasant. What could there be, she asked, in common between herself and this workman? Then she wondered, remembering that so far she had found nothing in her own mind that was not also in his. Could it be that two years of Newnham had elevated . . . Read More

Community Reviews

My second time reading this book which is one of my absolute favourites. A forgotten classic first published in 1882, it is set amongst the working poor in the East End of London. When millionaire Angela Messenger decides to live and work under another name in the East End to best see how to help th

A very odd novel. An impossibility in the stark reality of the working conditions of the Victorian period. However, a really wonderful support to the discussion of working conditions, and the philanthropy that was taking place in the period to help elevate the working classes.