Norton Book of London Hardcover - 1995
by A. N. Wilson; A. N. Wilson (Editor)
The fascinating city of London is seen through the eyes of writers as various as Dickens and Joe Orton, Dostoyevsky and Lenin, Boswell and Martin Amis. Low life and high, beggars, politicians, royal families, intellectuals, and animals come together in a rich potpourri of the familiar, diverting, and strange.
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London has always been much more than a capital city. Its allure is so powerful that the city of monarchs and merchants once prompted Samuel Johnson to declare, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life". From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of World War II, from the building of the Tower of London to the building of Canary Wharf, this prodigious city has long stood at the heart of English national life. At one time the center of the greatest mercantile empire the world has ever known, today London remains one of the major financial hubs of the world, as well as one of the most interesting tourist destinations in the English-speaking world. In this fascinating trip through time and space, celebrated biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson gathers a collection of literature that reflects not merely a sense of place but also the teeming variety of the town that, in its very refusal to be defined, so consistently captures the world's interest. The Norton Book of London views the city through the eyes of writers as various as Dickens and Joe Orton, Dostoyevsky and Lenin, Boswell and Martin Amis. We see criminal London, low life and high life, beggars and politicians, royal families, intellectuals and animals, in a wonderful portrait that celebrates London both past and present. From Black Beauty to Virginia Woolf, Wilson has scoured the shelves for a rich potpourri of the familiar, the diverting, and the strange.
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- Title Norton Book of London
- Author A. N. Wilson; A. N. Wilson (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 484
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1995-03-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780393036312 / 0393036316
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 5.92 x 1.25 in (23.55 x 15.04 x 3.18 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Literary collections, English literature - England - London
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-24181
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.803
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/15/1995, Page 892
- Library Journal, 12/01/1994, Page 117
- Publishers Weekly, 10/24/1994, Page 50
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