The Great Stink
Underground areas
Crimean War, 1853-1856
Sewerage
Veterans
London (england), fiction
Fiction, historical
Fiction, psychological
Fiction, historical, general
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Literature
Social conditions
Large type books
Fiction
It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to his beloved wife from the battlefields of the Crimea. He secures a job transforming London's sewer system and begins to lay his ghosts to rest. Above ground, his work is increasingly compromised by corruption, and cholera epidemics threaten t…
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