Demos

A gripping portrait of urban life that still reverberates today. Demos lays bare how ambition, poverty and power collide in late nineteenth-century Britain, with a world of cobbled streets, crowded rooms and crowded minds. This is more than a realist social novel: a lucid, morally charged study of class struggle, demagogic rhetoric, and the push for political reform set against Victorian England's bustling cities. The narrative speaks to today through echoes of street-level politics, intima...