Sweeney Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies sold at the pie shop of Mrs.
Lovett. This edition is lightly footnoted to help the modern reader catch literary and pop-cultural references as well as slang terms that were familiar to 1840s Londoners, but are more obscure today.
"Michele Lowe's radiant new play explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls.
String of Pearls
The String of Pearls is a classic gothic story, which features the infamous Sweeney Todd.
A Victorian sensation, featuring Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
This is the mystery novel that started it all: The gruesome legend about the "demon barber of Fleet Street.
This edition provides an authoritative text of the first version of the story ever to be published, as well as a lively introduction to its history and reputation.
It was during that summer that we first learned to play golf and tennis with our friends, the Cronin twins—Christine and Francine—at the golf and tennis clubs in Chantilly. So when I arrived in Paris to work at UPI had many advantages.
Strings of Pearls: A Collection of Poems