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The Wonderful Century

Author : Alfred R. Wallace
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602064180
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Wonderful Century written by Alfred R. Wallace and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonderful Century, originally published in 1898, is a unique book, offering a retrospective of the grand scope of the 19th century. In it, British biologist and explorer ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1823-1913) discusses what he considers the successes of the last hundred years, including advances made in modes of travel, mechanization, photography, the analysis of light, physics, the study of dust, chemistry, astronomy, glaciers, geology, evolution, and medicine. He also covers those areas of study that have not been advanced as much as he believes they should have been. Among the curious topics in the "Failure" section of the book are phrenology, hypnotism, and the fallacy of vaccination. It will be amusing to modern readers that many of the areas that Wallace thought needed to be elucidated better in the future have since been proven false. History buffs as well as readers wishing to be entertained by the skewed views of the past will find this book a joyous and engaging read.

The Zoo

Author : Isobel Charman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241975077
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Zoo written by Isobel Charman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How one man's mad mission became one of the best-loved places in the world The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all four corners of the globe. It is the story of a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of a swirling city, and of incredible characters, both human and animal - from Stamford Raffles and Charles Darwin to Jenny the orang-utan and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. Against a background of global Empire, domestic reform and industrialisation, this is a new history of a new world.

The Wonderful Century

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108036791
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Wonderful Century written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1898, this book describes the scientific and technological achievements of the nineteenth century, together with its 'failures'.

London Fog

Author : Christine L. Corton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088352
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book London Fog written by Christine L. Corton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. “Engrossing and magnificently researched...Corton’s book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London’s ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny, fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights, filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank, smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It’s discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual, enthralling and enlightening experience.” —Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review “Corton, clad in an overcoat, with a linklighter before her, takes us into the gloomier, long 19th century, where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated, London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma.” —Philip Hoare, New Statesman

London

Author : Stephanie Larkin
Publisher : Red Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 1637773153
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book London written by Stephanie Larkin and published by Red Penguin Books. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you live in London, long to visit, or wish to relive a past excursion, “London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town” will put you right in the center of the action. Containing stories, poems, and short plays recounting everything from a trip up into the London Eye to an afternoon to a first date gone awry, you laugh, cry, and certainly mutter “buggers” as you get immersed in this beautiful, full-color volume on London and the surrounding countryside.

The Great When

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526643197
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Great When written by Alan Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A propulsive tour through a fantastical London, where history and myth collide, murder stalks the streets and the mundane becomes very magical indeed... The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital is Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen-year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks bizarre and disastrous repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse). So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers – some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons forever. Thrilling, lyrical and sparkling with dark humour, The Great When is the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore. 'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair 'Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' Adam Curtis 'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez 'A masterful step from one of our very best, uncompromising storytellers; Moore peels back the layers of London and reveals not only the history we know, but the histories that could have been, and, underneath it all, both the dark and beautiful truths about who we are as a nation.' Heather Parry

London in the Twentieth Century

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407013076
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book London in the Twentieth Century written by Jerry White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.

Beautiful Untrue Things

Author : Gregory Mackie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487516274
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Untrue Things written by Gregory Mackie and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde’s essay "The Decay of Lying," this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde’s early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era’s most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde’s continued cultural impact at a moment when he had fallen out of favour with the literary establishment. It probes the activities of a series of eccentric and often outrageous figures who inhabited Oscar Wilde’s much-mythologized authorial persona – in forging him, they effectively wrote as Wilde – in order to argue that literary forgery can be reimagined as a form of performance. But to forge Wilde and generate "beautiful untrue things" in his name is not only an exercise in role-playing – it is also crucially a form of imaginative world-making, resembling what we describe today as fan fiction.

London For Dummies

Author : Donald Olson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470282908
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book London For Dummies written by Donald Olson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is both traditional and trend-setting — the home of ceremonious pomp and pageantry and the "anything goes" aura of Soho. You can hang around the Tower of London or seek out the happening spots. Dine on fish and chips, try modern British cuisine, or take advantage of great ethnic restaurants, including Indian, French, Chinese, and more. Take in the historical sites or explore diverse neighborhoods. This guide gives you the latest scoop on: The hottest clubs and night life, the coolest shopping, and the thriving performing arts scene Attractions ranging from pubs to palaces to Parliament Incredible museums, including the British Museum with its antiquities, the Tate Modern, and the National Portrait Gallery with likenesses of famous Brits, including pop icons like Elton John Four itineraries to help you pack the most into your stay Five day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and other attractions Like every For Dummies travel guide, London For Dummies, Fifth Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Lots of detailed maps

A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke

Author : Lawrence Alfred Phillips
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022906
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke written by Lawrence Alfred Phillips and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all eras of London¿s history, the Victorian and Edwardian city continues to stimulate the literary, visual, and popular imaginations like no other. This collection explores the unique relationship between the literary, and more broadly, artistic imagination and experience of the Victorian and Edwardian city. It includes some major figures such as Wordsworth, Dickens, and James, but also other writers and artists who are all but forgotten. Bringing together some of the leading scholars working on representations of Victorian and Edwardian London, this collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students working on literary London and more broadly the urban in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.

Prettycitylondon

Author : Siobhan Ferguson
Publisher : Pretty Cities
ISBN 13 : 9780750985598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Prettycitylondon written by Siobhan Ferguson and published by Pretty Cities. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From secluded mews to undiscovered cafes, flower markets, and tree-lined streets, prettycitylondon champions the quiet, gentle moments that allow you to escape in a huge capital city like London. If you know where to look, you will find that traditional shop fronts, vintage transport, artisan bakeries, florists, and bookstores are but a hop skip and a jump from the center, and some right bang in the middle. Curated by founder and editor of Instagram's @prettycitylondon, this stunning guide also includes tips on how to photograph and plan your own prettycitylondon experience, whether on foot or from afar.

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities

Author : Devon Cox
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 0711274525
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Street of Wonderful Possibilities written by Devon Cox and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived between the 1870s and 1930s, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent. It provides a new, fresh perspective on legendary figures in British art and literature and explores the relationship between these artists and their living environment. Today Tite Street is a narrow, quiet thoroughfare tucked away in a cosy corner of London. With the exception of a few blue plaques upon its walls, there is little indication of the rich and vibrant history of a street that once stood at the heart of the London art world. In this thriving artistic quarter, artists and writers created a bohemian enclave that would challenge Victorian values in art and literature. For Oscar Wilde, Tite Street was full of 'wonderful possibilities', while for Whistler it was 'the birthplace of art' where the nascent Aesthetic Movement was nurtured in his highly controversial White House. From the studios and houses of Tite Street issued modern masterpieces in art such as Whistler's Harmony in Pink and Greyand Sargent's Lady Agnew, and in literature with Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.But Tite Street had a dark side as well. Here Whistler was bankrupted, Frank Miles was sent to an asylum, Wilde was imprisoned, and Peter Warlock was gassed to death. Throughout its turbulent existence, Tite Street mirrored the world around it. From the Aesthetic Movement to the Edwardian suffragettes, through the bombs of the Blitz in the 1940s to the bombs of the IRA in the 1970s, Tite Street remained a home to innumerable artists and writers, socialites and suffragettes, musicians and madmen. Countless biographies have explored the major figures in Tite Street individually, but never in the context of their living and working environment. The Street of Wonderful Possibilitiesunfolds this complex history, tying together the private and professional lives of Tite Street's artists, writers and bohemians to form a colourful tapestry of art and intrigue, illuminating their relationships to each other, to Tite Street and to a rapidly modernising London at the fin de siecle.

Madeline in London

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014056649X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Madeline in London written by Ludwig Bemelmans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines the smallest one was Madeline.” Nothing frightens Madeline—not tigers, not even mice. With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years! Pepito has moved to England. To help celebrate his birthday, Miss Clavel and the girls pay him a visit. When his mother won't let Pepito keep one of his birthday presents--a horse--Madeline is more than willing to help out. Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) was the author of the beloved Madeline books, including Madeline, a Caldecott Honor Book, and Madeline's Rescue, winner of the Caldecott Medal.

The Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1)

Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0008119066
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1) written by Andrew Taylor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the No. 1 Times bestselling series ‘This is terrific stuff’ Daily Telegraph ‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ Financial Times ‘A masterclass in how to weave a well-researched history into a complex plot’ The Times

London in Bloom

Author : Georgianna Lane
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1683358864
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book London in Bloom written by Georgianna Lane and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join acclaimed photographer Georgianna Lane and explore the flower markets, gardens, and floral boutiques of London in this full-color celebration of the flora of England’s capital. London in Bloom showcases the floral abundance of the city’s extraordinary parks, gardens, florists, and flower markets. In this companion to her popular books Paris in Bloom and New York in Bloom, Georgianna Lane takes us on a romantic floral tour of London, juxtaposing luscious blooms with intricate floral details found in iconic architecture. The book also includes: A detailed list of recommended parks, gardens, markets, and floral designers A spring tour of blossoms and blooms A field guide of common spring-blooming trees and shrubs Step-by-step instructions for creating a London-style bouquet And more Lane offers a practical travel guide for anyone planning to see London in bloom in real life. She plans out a tour of spring blossoms, with a field guide for identifying flowering trees and shrubs. She even includes a list of addresses for her favorite parks, gardens, floral boutiques, and flower markets. Lane writes, “No place, real or imagined, enchants quite like an English garden. The ornate gates, the tumbling roses, the winding paths, and the sunlight winking through branches of delicate blossoms have long inspired poetry and romance. . . . Some are intimate and secret, with secluded corners and mysterious pools where dragonflies hover or fantastic creatures might even dwell. Others are impressive and majestic, their rolling parklands reminiscent of an eighteenth-century landscape painting.” For flower lovers and Anglophiles alike, London in Bloom offers a unique and irresistible view of London, a chance to bring “poetry and romance” to your home or to give it as a gift.

Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library

Author : Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Books Exclusive of Prose Fiction in the Central Lending Library written by Leeds (England). Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museum and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

100 British Documentaries

Author : Patrick Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838713980
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book 100 British Documentaries written by Patrick Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since John Grierson popularized the term 'documentary,' British non-fiction film has been renowned, sometimes reviled, but seldom properly appreciated. '100 British Documentaries 'provides a uniquely accessible, occasionally provocative introduction to a rich and surprisingly varied tradition by considering 100 examples taken from across a century's worth of output. The 100 films range from the Victorian period to the present day. Alongside such classics as 'Night Mail 'and 'Touching the Void 'are documentaries that illustrate the many uses to which it has been put from pro-gram-filler to political propaganda to classroom teaching aid and the many styles and viewpoints it has embraced. While the focus is on the documentary 'film,' several television productions are included, indicating how the genre has developed on the small screen.