The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary - Hardcover

Marc Mulholland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786331136 ISBN 13: 9781786331137

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2018

Synopsis

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About the Author:

Marc Mulholland is a Professor of Modern History at St Catherine's College, Oxford University. He specialises in the development of international socialism, the history of political thought, Revolution and modern Ireland. Marc is from County Antrim in Ireland, one of nine children. As his father was a forester he grew up in the woods at Portglenone. He lives in Oxford with his partner, Victoria.

Review:

"The Murderer of Warren Street begins as a penny-dreadful and develops into a dual portrait of London and Paris in an age of discontent, conspiracy and revolution. Our hero (or villain) is Barthelemy, a charismatic mix of Spartacus, the Scarlet Pimpernel and Jean Valjean. The Paris chapters have the ring of Victor Hugo, the London chapters are murkily Dickensian. Is Barthelemy an enigmatic outsider like John Harmon, alias Rokesmith, pulled from the Thames in Our Mutual Friend? Or a skulking, ungovernable menace like Rigaud in Little Dorrit? Mulholland tells Barthelemy's story with speed and confidence. As a life, Barthelemy's has it all: double crossings, sabotaged pistols, secret safe houses, disguises, affairs with Italian actresses, brutal guards, prison breaks, rooftop escapes over icy slates and a French femme fatale who may or may not be a spy." -- Laura Freeman * The Times * "A Victorian whodunit... Swashbuckling adventure and political thriller... Until now Emmanuel Barthelemy has not taken centre stage - which seems astonishing. Marc Mulholland must have hugged himself with glee when he had the idea. He has done it full justice... A magnificent book." -- Francis Wheen * The Oldie * "A biography that begins with a bang... In dealing with this unsympathetic figure, Mulholland proves to be an excellent guide: knowledgeable, fair-minded, and even handed." -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * Spectator * "The Murderer of Warren Street unravels a real-life Victorian mystery that ended in the last formal duel fought on British soil - but it does much more than that. Mulholland plunges us into the dark world of European socialism, and its cast includes famous figures like Karl Marx and Victor Hugo as well as the sinister yet admirable figure of Barthelemy." -- David Bellos, author of The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables "Marc Mulholland deftly interweaves politics and social history, to make The Murderer of Warren Street, and its protagonist, Emmanuel Barthelemy, major players in a depiction of a troubled century, and troubled minds." -- Judith Flanders * Author of The Victorian City and The Invention of Murder *

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786331136
• ISBN 13: 9781786331137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384