London: A Traveller's Reader
Good and bad, dangerous and exciting - views of the Greatest City on EarthLoved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries literally the world's greatest city. Its citizens have seen everything from pilgrimages, celebrations, acts of heroism and moments of religious contemplation to riots, executions, grisly murders and disastrous fires. This anthology is a history of work and capital, of power and exuberance, and of great creativity from a rich host of artists and writers, Pepys and Dickens among them, but also of violent crime, exploitation, loneliness and extreme hardship.Contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs tell the story o…
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Weitere Autoren: Wright, Thomas / Ackroyd, Peter (Hrsg.) / Wright, Thomas (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4721-4165-1
- EAN: 9781472141651
- Produktnummer: 23869754
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.9 cm 325 g
- Gewicht: 325
Über den Autor
Peter Ackroyd (Author) Peter Ackroyd, CBE, novelist, critic and biographer, formerly literary editor of the Spectator and chief non-fiction reviewer for the Times, has won numerous literary awards. His London: The Biography (2000) took the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature.Thomas Wright (Author) Thomas Wright, historian, writer and researcher, was editor for Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography.
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