Download or read book Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Fleet-Street: Vol. I: Original Title: The String of Pearls written by Thomas Preskett Prest and published by Pulp-Lit Productions. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshly typeset in readable modern type with the original woodcut illustrations, this two-volume edition presents the full version of what's probably the most influential and notorious "Penny Dreadful" ever published: the one in which London was introduced to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-Street, and his pie-selling partner-in-crime, Mrs. Lovett. This edition is lightly footnoted to help the modern reader catch literary and pop-cultural references as well as slang terms that were familiar to 1840s Londoners, but are more obscure today.