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The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance. — Thomas Peckett Prest

The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.

Thomas Peckett Prest

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 1288 pages

The String of Pearls; or, The Barber of Fleet Street is a Victorian serial novel, a Gothic melodrama and penny dreadful. It introduces Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, and weaves a mystery around disappearances and a string of pearls. Listen for its influential villain and dark Victorian atmosphere.

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Contents

  1. The String of Pearls; or, the Barber of Fleet Street
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE CUSTOMER AT SWEENEY TODD'S.
  4. CHAPTER II THE SPECTACLE-MAKER'S DAUGHTER.
  5. CHAPTER III. A MAN IS LOST.
  6. CHAPTER IV. THE PIE-SHOP, BELL-YARD.
  7. CHAPTER V THE MEETING IN THE TEMPLE.
  8. CHAPTER VI. THE CONFERENCE, AND THE FEARFUL NARRATION IN THE GARDEN.
  9. CHAPTER VII. THE BARBER AND THE LAPIDARY.
  10. CHAPTER VIII. THE THIEVES' HOME.
  11. CHAPTER IX. JOHANNA AT HOME, AND THE RESOLUTION.
  12. CHAPTER X. THE COLONEL AND HIS FRIEND.
  13. CHAPTER XI. THE STRANGER AT LOVETT'S.
  14. CHAPTER XII. THE RESOLUTION COME TO BY JOHANNA OAKLEY.
  15. CHAPTER XIII. JOHANNA'S INTERVIEW WITH ARABELLA WILMOT, AND THE ADVICE.
  16. CHAPTER XIV. TOBIAS'S THREAT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
  17. CHAPTER XV. THE SECOND INTERVIEW BETWEEN JOHANNA AND THE COLONEL IN THE TEMPLE GARDENS.
  18. CHAPTER XVI. THE BARBER MAKES ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SELL THE STRING OF PEARLS.
  19. CHAPTER XIV. THE GREAT CHANGE IN THE PROSPECTS OF SWEENEY TODD.
  20. CHAPTER XV. TOBIAS'S ADVENTURES DURING THE ABSENCE OF SWEENEY TODD.
  21. CHAPTER XVI. THE STRANGE ODOUR IN OLD ST. DUNSTAN'S CHURCH.
  22. CHAPTER XVII. SWEENEY TODD'S PROCEEDINGS CONSEQUENT UPON THE DEPARTURE OF TOBIAS.
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. THE MISADVENTURE OF TOBIAS.—THE MAD-HOUSE ON PECKHAM-RYE.
  24. CHAPTER XIX. THE MADHOUSE CELL.
  25. CHAPTER XX. THE NEW COOK TO MRS. LOVETT GETS TIRED OF HIS SITUATION.
  26. CHAPTER XXI. THE NIGHT AT THE MADHOUSE.
  27. CHAPTER XXII. MR. FOGG'S STORY AT THE MADHOUSE TO SWEENEY TODD.
  28. CHAPTER XXIV. COLONEL JEFFERY MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT TO COME AT SWEENEY TODD'S SECRET.
  29. CHAPTER XXV. TOBIAS MAKES AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM THE MADHOUSE.
  30. CHAPTER XXVI. THE MADHOUSE YARD, AND TOBIAS'S NEW FRIEND.

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