Reader's Guide to Writers' London

Cunningham, Ian

ISBN 10: 0233001255 / ISBN 13: 9780233001258

Published by Andrà Deutsch, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reader's Guide to Writers' London
• Publisher: AndrĂ Deutsch
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0233001255
• ISBN 13: 9780233001258
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

London has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer, Dickens and De Quincey, to Orton, Orwell and more recently, Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide, it leads you through the literary history of each district. Discover Boswell's Fleet Street, the Dickensian London of The Pickwick Papers and Little Dorrit and look at London Bridge through the eyes of T.S. Eliot. Packed with anecdotes about the lives of the city's writers, the book allows you to locate Dr. Johnson's favourite haunts and drink in the same bars as Dylan Thomas and Jeffrey Bernard. Accompanied by specially commissioned photographs of London today, and hundreds of illustrations of writers, manuscripts, prints and memorabilia, A Reader's Guide to Writers' London is a must for any lover of either literature or London.

About the Author

Ian Cunningham was born in 1962 and has lived in London for much of his life. He worked at a publishers and as a researcher for Reader's Digest before becoming a freelance writer and editor. He has had short stories published as well as book reviews for Time Out magazine and has contributed to several of their guides.