A London Year
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-3449-9 (ISBN)
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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.
Travis Elborough is an author and social commentator. His books include the four titles in the Unexpected Atlases series - Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of the Unexpected, Atlas of Vanishing Places and Atlas of Forgotten Places, together with A Traveller’s Year, A London Year, The Long-Player Goodbye, Being A Writer and A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution. Travis is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and the Guardian, and has penned articles on all aspects of travel and culture, from pirates in the Caribbean to donkeys at the British seaside. He has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine and Kinfolk among others. NICK RENNISON has worked as a writer, editor and bookseller for more than twenty years. His London Blue Plaque Guide has been through three editions in the last decade and he has also published The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that 'can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn't know'. He lives in Stockport.
200 diarists, including:
James Agate
Elias Ashmole
W.N.P. Barbellion
Tony Benn
Alan Bennett
John Betjeman
James Boswell
Elizabeth Bowen
Ford Madox Brown
Fanny Burney
Dora Carrington
Alan Clark
Ossie Clark
John Dee
Charles Dickens
Bubb Dodington
Maria Edgeworth
Edward VI
Dickon Edwards
George Eliot
John Evelyn
Michael Faraday
Joseph Farington
Caroline Fox
George Gissing
Alec Guinness
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Derek Jarman
John Keats
Oona King
Charles Lamb
James Lees-Milne
Henry Machyn
Thomas Moore
Harold Nicolson
Michael Palin
Samuel Pepys
Vita Sackville-West
Jonathan Swift
W. M. Thackeray
Vincent Van Gogh
Queen Victoria
Horace Walpole
Evelyn Waugh
John Wesley
Virginia Woolf
Joan Wyndham
Mitarbeit |
Zusammenstellung: Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison |
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Zusatzinfo | unillustrated |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte | |
Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7112-3449-3 / 0711234493 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7112-3449-9 / 9780711234499 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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