The Book Lover's Guide to London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milne, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks.

Travel.

Literary journeys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

FOREWORD

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

Novels, Poems and Writing Included

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781399001151

1399001159

OCLC:

1321804137