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London of the mind, the heart and the eye is displayed, discussed and dissected in this classic work of 1962 that unites the elegant prose of V.S. Pritchett and the revealing photographs of Evelyn Hofer. Here is a pithy, knowledgeable distillation of the essential London - a panorama of its history, art, literature and daily life. Here is the city that Londoners know, a paraodox of grandeur and grime, the locus of bustling markets and tranquil parks, of palaces and pubs, of docks and railway depots, of the ancient and modern. Great Londoners of the past stalk these pages - Wren, Pepys, Defoe, Hogarth, Dickens and, of course, Samuel Johnson. And here, too, are the faces of the people inhabiting modern London - enigmatic and enduring.
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V. S. Pritchett, one of England's leading novelists and literary critics, was born in Ipswich in 1900. He began his career as a newspaper correspondent and soon after was embraced by serious readers of literature. He has published novels, travel books , and volumes of criticism.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0701120525
- ISBN 13 9780701120528
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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