Sober Truth: A Collection of 19th Century Episodes Fantastic, Grotesque and Mysterious

by Osbert Sitwell, Margaret Barton

From Burke and Hare to Jack the Ripper, Louis Napoleon's landing at Boulogne to the extermination of the Great Auk and many others.

235 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1930

About the author

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt.

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