{"product_id":"hard-streets-by-jacqueline-riding-9781800818644","title":"Hard Streets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard Streets\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned, according to Hallie Rubenhold, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Five\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFramed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496021147884,"sku":"9781800818644","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781800818644-hard-streets.jpg?v=1775795657","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/hard-streets-by-jacqueline-riding-9781800818644","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}