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London : A Literary Anthology by The British Library (2014, Hardcover)

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PublisherBritish Library, T.H.E.

ISBN-100712357408

ISBN-139780712357401

eBay Product ID (ePID)201674359

Product Key Features

Book TitleLondon : a Literary Anthology

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicEurope / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History

AuthorThe British Library

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight30.2 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsCaptures the city's candelit circles and foggy shadows. . . . Although the handsome cover and many familiar authors may tempt browsers to judge this compilation as a pleasant holiday gift or congenial night-table companion, the contents reveal a complex presentation. . . . The presentation of period illustrations and literary reflections, if attentively read, invites audiences to study dozens of reactions in pen and pastel to the domination of the City over one's own mental landscape. For those who have visited or who live in London, it will remind them of why many want to return there, or why some never will., The ever-sagacious Samuel Johnson famously remarked that those who were tired of London were tired of life. There's an awful lot of life packed into the sampling of literary reflections of that city, which the editors of the British Library--that great depository of English manuscripts--have assembled in these pages. Whether a writer was a native of London, a visitor or one who adopted it as his hometown, it had an enormous effect. For so many writers over the centuries, London offered fodder for their work, whether as inspiration for all manner of subject matters and characters or merely as background. . . . London: A Literary Anthology indeed affirms Samuel Johnson's dictum, for it shows not only a city with a lot of lives being lived but also a metropolis with a life of its own.

Dewey Decimal808.80358421

Table Of Content1 The City at Dawn Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ~ William Wordsworth Impression du matin ~ Oscar Wilde London''s Summer Morning ~ Mary Robinson A Description of the Morning ~ Jonathan Swift 2 Coming to London Henrietta Temple ~ Benjamin Disraeli London Lickpeny attributed to ~ John Lydgate Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens Don Juan ~ Lord Byron Daniel Deronda ~ George Eliot The Pretty ~ Lady Arnold Bennett Beginning in a City, 1948 ~ James Berry The Lonely Londoners ~ Samuel Selvon 3 Exploring London Villette ~ Charlotte Bronte Real Life in London ~ attributed to Pierce Egan Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile ~ Herman Melville A London Life ~ Henry James The Captives ~ Hugh Walpole The Tiredness of Rosabel ~ Katherine Mansfield Mrs Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf The Four-Gated City ~ Doris Lessing 4 The High Life Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray The Way We Live Now ~ Anthony Trollope Lucia in London ~ E. F Benson Vile Bodies ~ Evelyn Waugh 5 The Low Life Bleak House ~ Charles Dickens The Voyage Out ~ Virginia Woolf The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson On the Stairs ~ Arthur Morrison 6 Living Together in London The Black Album ~ Hanif Kureishi Trivia ~ John Gay The Prelude William Wordsworth The Red Mark ~ Israel Zangwill The Inheritors Joseph Conrad and ~ Ford Madox Ford White Teeth ~ Zadie Smith 7 Hymn to the City London ~ attributed to William Dunbar London ~ Joanna Baillie The Fortunate Mistress, or Roxana ~ Daniel Defoe The London Breed ~ Benjamin Zephaniah 8 Lament for the City London ~ William Blake Coming up Oxford Street: Evening ~ Thomas Hardy Homesick Dorothy ~ Frances McCrae In Partibus ~ Rudyard Kipling 9 Survival Through Plague and Fire Summer''s Last Will and Testament ~ Thomas Nashe A Journal of the Plague Year ~ Daniel Defoe Hawksmoor ~ Peter Ackroyd Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666 ~ John Dryden When London Burned ~ G A Henty 10 Survival Through The World Wars Mr Standfast ~ John Buchan Town in 1917 ~ D H Lawrence Trafalgar Square, September 1917 ~ Robert Bridges London, 1941 ~ Meivyn Peake The World My Wilderness ~ Rose Macaulay 11 Visio of the Apocalypse The Last Man ~ Mary Shelley After Loudon ~ Richard Jefferies The Poison Belt ~ Arthur Conan Doyle The War of the Worlds ~ H G Wells 12 Ever-Changing London The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ~ Tobias Smollett Scenes in London: Piccadilly ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon Dombey and Son ~ Charles Dickens The Forsyte Saga ~ John Galsworthy Captain Nicholas ~ Hugh Walpole Wise Children ~ Angela Carter 13 The City at Night The Night City ~ W S Graham The Lights of London ~ Louise Imogen Guiney The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins Mother of Exiles ~ Laurence Binyon A London Thoroughfare 2am ~ Amy Lowell

Synopsis"There's nowhere like London really you know," says Ginger in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies . From the innumerable books written about London or set in the city, it would seem countless other writers agree. This anthology features a wide-ranging collection of poems and scenes from novels that stretch from the 15th century to the present day. They range from Daniel Defoe hymning "the greatest, the finest, the richest city in the world" to Rudyard Kipling declaring impatiently, "I am sick of London town;" from William Makepeace Thackeray moving among "the very greatest circles of the London fashion" to Charles Dickens venturing into an "infernal gulf." Experience London for the first time with Lord Byron's Don Juan, and James Berry in his Caribbean gear "beginning in the city." Plunge into the multi-racial whirlpool described in William Wordsworth's Prelude , Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album , and Zadie Smith's White Teeth . See the ever-changing city through the eyes of Tobias Smollett, John Galsworthy, and Angela Carter. From well-known texts to others that are less familiar, here is London brought to life through the words of many of the greatest writers in the English language., "There's nowhere like London really you know," says Ginger in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. From the innumerable books written about London or set in the city, it would seem countless other writers agree. This anthology features a broad collection of poems and scenes from novels that stretch from the fifteenth century to the present day. They range from Daniel Defoe extolling it as "the greatest, the finest, the richest city in the world," and Rudyard Kipling declaring impatiently, "I am sick of London town," to William Makepeace Thackeray moving among "the very greatest circles of the London fashion," and Charles Dickens venturing into an "infernal gulf." Illustrated with evocative prints, drawings, and full-color artwork from British Library collections, the book explores London as never before. They will experience London for the first time with Lord Byron's Don Juan and James Berry in his Caribbean gear "beginning in the city." They will plunge into the multiracial whirlpool described in William Wordsworth's Prelude, Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and see the ever-changing city through the eyes of Tobias Smollett, John Galsworthy, and Angela Carter. From well-known texts to others that are less familiar, London: A Literary Anthology brings London to life through the words of many of the greatest writers in the English language. Authors featured: Peter Ackroyd, Matthew Arnold, Arnold Bennett, E. F. Benson, James Berry, Laurence Binyon, William Blake, James Boswell, James Bramston, Robert Bridges, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Buchan, Lord Byron, Angela Carter, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dryden, William Dunbar, George Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, John Gay, George VI, George Gissing, W. S. Graham, Thomas Hardy, G. A. Henty, Robert Herrick, Henry James, Richard Jefferies, Ben Jonson, Rudyard Kipling, Hanif Kureishi, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, John Lydgate, Rose Macaulay, Colin MacInnes, Herman Melville, Arthur Morrison, Thomas Nashe, Mervyn Peake, Egan Pierce, Mary Robinson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Samuel Selvon, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Zadie Smith, Tobias Smollett, Robert Southey, Edmund Spenser, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Hugh Walpole, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Israel Zangwill, and Benjamin Zephaniah

LC Classification NumberPN6071