London Stories

Jerry White

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Everyman's Library
15 April 2014

Literary essays; Short stories

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

A collection of

some thirty stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and London writing over the past four centuries, from the time of Shakespeare to the present day. Beautiful hardback gift edition with silk ribbon and sewn binding.

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the essence of London and what it meant for the people who lived there or were merely passing through. They found a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy; and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town.

They are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Some voices will be familiar to many readers and others practically unknown. But all give us insights into these writers' very varied Londons; and all tell their stories gratifyingly well.

Authors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey, W. M. Thackeray, Henry Mayhew, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, J. B. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Maeve Binchy, Doris Lessing, Hanif Kureishi and Shena Mackay.

Edited by: Jerry White
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 186mm, Width: 122mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781841596167
ISBN 10: 1841596167
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 15 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jerry White is the leading social historian of modern London. The final volume in his trilogy chronicling the city's past three centuries, London in the Eighteenth Century. A Great and Monstrous Thing, was published to critical acclaim in 2012.

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