A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century.
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A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century.
There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today’s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common.
Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the city’s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, A London Year is the perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.
Product Description
Title - A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Edition -
Author -
ISBN 13 - 9780711234499
Imprint - Frances Lincoln
Publisher - Quarto Publishing PLC
Date Published - 03/10/2013
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Binding Type - Hardback
Dimensions - 156 x 234 x mm
Weight - g
Languages - English