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London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

Author : Rosemary Gray
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509845992
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book London: An Illustrated Literary Companion written by Rosemary Gray and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Walking Literary London

Author : Stephen Browning
Publisher : White Owl
ISBN 13 : 1399096885
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Walking Literary London written by Stephen Browning and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meant for travelers and general readers, this book belongs to adventurers of all sorts, whether on the road or in their minds." - Library Journal London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer, P.L. Travers, Samuel Pepys, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Una Marson, Joe Orton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Phillis Wheatley, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Potter and Samuel Selvon to name just a very few. The text takes the reader on a series of walks, each of which is original and unique, the result of twenty years’ exploration of this wonderful city by the author. Detailed maps have been specially commissioned. The text is accompanied by over 80 original photographs taken by the author. In these pages you will find the details of hundreds of writers and their works; wherever you walk in the great city of London – even if solely in imagination from an armchair - the experience is going to be extraordinary.

Walking Literary London

Author : Roger Tagholm
Publisher : New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN 13 : 9781847739926
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Walking Literary London written by Roger Tagholm and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at both visitors and residents, this compact and easy-to-use guide describes in detail 25 carefully selected walks that reveal the literary history and culture of London.

Walking Literary London

Author : Stephen Browning
Publisher : White Owl
ISBN 13 : 1399096907
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Walking Literary London written by Stephen Browning and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meant for travelers and general readers, this book belongs to adventurers of all sorts, whether on the road or in their minds." - Library Journal London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer, P.L. Travers, Samuel Pepys, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Una Marson, Joe Orton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Phillis Wheatley, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Potter and Samuel Selvon to name just a very few. The text takes the reader on a series of walks, each of which is original and unique, the result of twenty years’ exploration of this wonderful city by the author. Detailed maps have been specially commissioned. The text is accompanied by over 80 original photographs taken by the author. In these pages you will find the details of hundreds of writers and their works; wherever you walk in the great city of London – even if solely in imagination from an armchair - the experience is going to be extraordinary.

Walking in the City

Author : Catharina Löffler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658177438
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Walking in the City written by Catharina Löffler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in the history of London and make this book a tour of London as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of fictional eighteenth-century urban walkers. Uniting concepts of literary theory, urban studies and psychogeography, Löffler approaches a cross-generic range of literary texts that design uniquely subjective visions and versions of the city. A journey through the fictions and factions of eighteenth-century London, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the history and literature of the English capital.

Walking Pepys's London

Author : Jacky Colliss Harvey
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913368297
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Walking Pepys's London written by Jacky Colliss Harvey and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

The Perfect London Walk

Author : Daniel Curley
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836279290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect London Walk written by Daniel Curley and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a walking tour in London, off the beaten path, and shares observations on British customs and history, and points of interest along the way.

Walking Virginia Woolf’s London

Author : Lisbeth Larsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331955672X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Walking Virginia Woolf’s London written by Lisbeth Larsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf’s writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they walk around London, demonstrating how Woolf constructs the characters in her stories in a very politically conscious way. As Larsson argues, none of Woolf’s characters are able to walk just anywhere, at any time in history, or at any time of the day. Time, place, gender, and class form the conditions of life that the characters must accept or challenge. Featuring an array of detailed maps, Walking Virginia Woolf’s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography brings a fascinating new perspective to Virginia Woolf’s work. It is essential reading for scholars of modernist literature or geocriticism.

Literary London

Author : Eloise Millar
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782435050
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Literary London written by Eloise Millar and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary London is a snappy and informative guide, showing just why - as another famous local writer put it - he who is tired of London is tired of life.

Nightwalking

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168796X
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Nightwalking written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a fascinating literary exploration of the writers who traverse the city at night and the people they meet.

The Last London

Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786071754
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Last London written by Iain Sinclair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.

London Orbital

Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141936010
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book London Orbital written by Iain Sinclair and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city. Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before. 'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English'John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph 'A magnum opus, my book of the year. I urge you to read it. In fact, if you're a Londoner and haven't read it by the end of next year, I suggest you leave'Will Self, Evening Standard 'A journey into the heart of darkness and a fascinating snapshot of who we are, lit by Sinclair's vivid prose. I'm sure it will be read fifty years from now'J. G. Ballard, Observer Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

Writers' London

Author : Carrie Kania
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781788840460
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Writers' London written by Carrie Kania and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Explore the city that inspired some of the greatest writers in history- Discover the contemporary writers still making London a literary capital today- The perfect gift for anglophiles, bibliophiles, and wanderers- Part of a new series exploring London culture, joined by Vinyl London, Rock 'n' Roll London, Art London and London Peculiars"When one is tired of London, one is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson London has long been a center of the literary world. From Shakespeare to Amis, Byron to Blake, Plath, Thomas, Christie and Rowling; many of the greatest names in literature have made this metropolis their home. Writers' London guides the reader through homes, bookshops, pubs and cemeteries, in search of where literary greats loved and lost, drank and died. Discover the Islington building where Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, the Soho pub where Dylan Thomas left his manuscript, the Chelsea hotel where Oscar Wilde was arrested, and the Bank of England where Kenneth Graham was shot at (and missed) three times. Gathering hundreds of famous and less-well-known anecdotes, this meticulously researched volume will entertain any lover of literature.

Walks with Walser

Author : Carl Seelig
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221407
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Walks with Walser written by Carl Seelig and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.

33 Walks in London that You Shouldn't Miss

Author : Nicola Perry
Publisher : Emons Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783954518869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book 33 Walks in London that You Shouldn't Miss written by Nicola Perry and published by Emons Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring hundreds of interesting and unusual places, 33 Walks in London is the ultimate insider's guide to exploring Britain's capital on foot.

Beneath My Feet

Author : Duncan Minshull
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1912559196
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Beneath My Feet written by Duncan Minshull and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.” —Søren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described the whys, hows, and wheres of traveling on foot for various magazines and newspapers, including The Times (London), the Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue. He has edited two other collections on walking: While Wandering: A Walking Companion (originally The Vintage Book of Walking) and The Burning Leg: Walking Scenes from Classic Fiction. Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. But the best insights, the deepest and most joyous examinations of this simple activity are to be found in nonfiction—in essays, travelogues, and memoirs. Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1700s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. Follow in the footsteps of William Hazlitt, George Sand, Rebecca Solnit, Will Self, and dozens of others. Keep up with them—and be astonished.

Walking the Nile

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190685
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Nile written by Levison Wood and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explorer and author of Walking the Americas and Walking the Himalayas delivers “a bold travelogue, illuminating great swathes of modern Africa” (Kirkus Reviews). Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda—where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water—writer, photographer, and explorer Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the fabled river. He followed the Nile for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt—to the Mediterranean coast. Like his predecessors, Wood camped in the wild, foraged for food, and trudged through rainforest, swamp, savannah, and desert, enduring life-threatening conditions at every turn. He traversed sandstorms, flash floods, minefields, and more, becoming a local celebrity in Uganda, where a popular rap song was written about him, and a potential enemy of the state in South Sudan, where he found himself caught in a civil war and detained by the secret police. As well as recounting his triumphs, like escaping a charging hippo and staving off wild crocodiles, Wood’s gripping account recalls the loss of Matthew Power, a journalist who died suddenly from heat exhaustion during their trek. As Wood walks on, often joined by local guides who help him to navigate foreign languages and customs, Walking the Nile maps out African history and contemporary life. “Woods emerges as a dutiful and brave guide.”—Los Angeles Times “Many have attempted this holy grail of an expedition—so I admire Lev’s determination and courage to pull this off.”—Bear Grylls “A brilliant book.”—Financial Times