The String of PearlsThomas Peckett Prest
The String of Pearls
Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
- Listening time
- about 46 h 54 min
- Length
- 435,904 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1884
- Edition
- Public-domain text, cleaned for narration
- Download in the app
- 2.3 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
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How it begins.
Before Fleet-street had reached its present importance, and when George the Third was young, and the two figures who used to strike the chimes at old St. Dunstan's church were in all their glory--being a great impediment to errand-boys on their progress, and a matter of gaping curiosity to country people--there stood close to the sacred edifice a small barber's shop, which was kept by a man of the name of Sweeney Todd.
The String of Pearls · Thomas Peckett Prest
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