A London Year

A London Year

365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Buch | Softcover
624 Seiten
2015
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-3564-9 (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.
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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.3.2015
Mitarbeit Zusammenstellung: Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Reiseführer Europa Großbritannien
ISBN-10 0-7112-3564-3 / 0711235643
ISBN-13 978-0-7112-3564-9 / 9780711235649
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