This article is about the Sweeney Todd novel. For similar uses, see String of pearls.
The String of Pearls
Page from The String of Pearls; or, The Sailor’s Gift, 1850
Author
Unknown but probably James Malcolm Rymer and/or Thomas Peckett Prest
Working title
The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Subject
Sweeney Todd
Genre
Fiction
Set in
London
Published
1846–47 by Edward Lloyd 1850 as a book
Media type
Print (Penny dreadful)
Pages
732 pp (Book)
OCLC
830944639
LC Class
PR5285.R99
Text
The String of Pearls at Wikisource
The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (alternatively titled The Sailor's Gift) is a story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846 to 47. The main character of the story is Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The story was the character's first literary appearance.
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and gives their corpses to Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes their flesh into meat pies. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd kills his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward through a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor.
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