London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place.

Acclaimed historian Jerry White has collected some twenty-six stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and writing over the past four centuries, from Shakespeareâ€™s day to the present. These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. Here are dramatic views of such iconic events as the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz, but also William Thackerayâ€™s account of going to see a man hanged, Thomas De Quinceyâ€™s friendship with a teenaged prostitute, and Doris Lessingâ€™s defense of the Underground. This literary London encompasses the famous Baker Street residence of Conan Doyleâ€™s Sherlock Holmes and the bombed-out moonscape of Elizabeth Bowenâ€™s wartime streets, Charles Dickenâ€™s treacherous River Thames and Frederick Trevesâ€™s tragic Elephant Man. Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and Hanif Kureishi are among the many great writers who give us their varied Londons here, revealing a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 375759
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-05-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375712463

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	375759
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-05-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375712463

London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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