London Stories
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 Shakespeare'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 ev…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-71246-3
- EAN: 9780375712463
- Produktnummer: 19330355
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H18.9 cm x B12.3 cm x D3.0 cm 434 g
- Gewicht: 434
Über den Autor
Jerry White is Visiting Professor in History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a leading social historian of modern London. He is the author of the critically acclaimed trilogy London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing; London in the Nineteenth Century; and London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People.
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