Novels about the underworld in older times
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1asurbanipal
Let's say before 1900.
Thieves, courtesans, vagrants.
I've heard the titles The Crimson Petal and the White, The Robbers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lazarillo de Tormes.
I'm especially interested in people who were half-aristocrats, half-criminals. The Milady in Dumas. Non-fiction books would also be useful.
This is a certain motif, I believe, as in Dr Jekyll.
In David Copperfield, girls drawn into prostitution in London are mentioned.
Aretino's Dialogues are probably useful.
Personally, I don't like this current very much, but many people were in these trades in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy
Thieves, courtesans, vagrants.
I've heard the titles The Crimson Petal and the White, The Robbers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lazarillo de Tormes.
I'm especially interested in people who were half-aristocrats, half-criminals. The Milady in Dumas. Non-fiction books would also be useful.
This is a certain motif, I believe, as in Dr Jekyll.
In David Copperfield, girls drawn into prostitution in London are mentioned.
Aretino's Dialogues are probably useful.
Personally, I don't like this current very much, but many people were in these trades in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy
2lilithcat
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