The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds)

Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival becomes "a deeply personal project, one that probes the meaning of langu

The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through t

Reproduction of the original: Rogues and Vagabonds by George R. Sims