Bibliograph

A London year, 365 days of city life in diaries, journals and letters, compiled by Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison

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A London year, 365 days of city life in diaries, journals and letters, compiled by Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A London year

Responsibility statement

compiled by Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison

Sub title

365 days of city life in diaries, journals and letters

Summary

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

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