The Book Lover’s Guide to London 1st Edition by Sarah Milne ISBN 1399001159 9781399001151

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ISBN 10: 1399001159

ISBN 13: 9781399001151

Author:  Sarah Milne 

The Book Lover’s Guide to London 1st Edition: Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colorful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London’s writers have bought the city to life through some of the best known and loved stories and characters in fiction.

This book takes you on an area-by-area journey through London to discover the stories behind the stories told in some of the most famous novels, plays and poems written in, or about, the city.

* Find out which poet almost lost one of his most important manuscripts in a Soho pub.

* Discover how Graham Greene managed to survive the German bomb that destroyed his Clapham home.

* Climb down the dingy steps from London Bridge to Thames path below and imagine how it felt to be Nancy trying to save Oliver Twist, only to then meet her own violent death.

* Drink in same pub Bram Stoker listened to the ghost stories that inspired Dracula, the plush drinking house where Noel Coward performed, and the bars and cafes frequented by modern writers.

* Tour the locations where London’s writers, and their characters lived, worked, played, loved, lost and died.

This is the first literature guide to London to be fully illustrated with beautiful color photographs throughout the book. This unique book can be used a guidebook on a physical journey through London, or as a treasury of fascinating, often obscure tales and information for book lovers to read wherever they are.

 

The Book Lover’s Guide to London 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Central London

   • Bloomsbury
   • Soho
   • Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square
   • The Strand
   • Charing Cross
   • Holborn and Clerkenwell
   • The City
   • Westminster
   • Mayfair
   • Marylebone
   • Fitzrovia

2. North West London

   • Camden
   • Regents Park
   • Primrose Hill
   • Hampstead Heath
   • St John’s Wood

3. North London

   • Islington
   • Highgate
   • Holloway and Highbury and Stoke Newington

4. East London

   • The East End and Docklands
   • Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs
   • Wapping
   • Spitalfields
   • Whitechapel

5. South London

   • Southwark and Bankside
   • Camberwell and Peckham
   • Deptford
   • Clapham
   • Brixton
   • Crystal Palace and Norwood
   • Beckenham and Bromley

6. South West London

   • Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Pimlico
   • Kensington and Earls Court
   • Chelsea and Fulham

7. West London

   • Bayswater
   • Notting Hill
   • Holland Park
   • Chiswick
   • Hammersmith

8. Novels, Poems and Writing Included

 

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