Curiosities of Street Literature collects the broadsides, ballads, dying speeches, and sensational news-sheets once hawked in the streets of England. These cheap printed papers were a popular forerunner of the newspaper, sold to a mass audience.
The anthology preserves a vivid and often lurid body of popular print, from execution accounts to comic verse. It is a fascinating record of the printed word as street entertainment and early popular journalism. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. The EPUB has been carefully formatted for modern e-readers and tablets. Download the free EPUB of this collection of street literature.