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Author | : Jerry White |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375712461 |
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place. Acclaimed historian Jerry White has collected some twenty-six stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and writing over the past four centuries, from Shakespeare’s day to the present. These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. Here are dramatic views of such iconic events as the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz, but also William Thackeray’s account of going to see a man hanged, Thomas De Quincey’s friendship with a teenaged prostitute, and Doris Lessing’s defense of the Underground. This literary London encompasses the famous Baker Street residence of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the bombed-out moonscape of Elizabeth Bowen’s wartime streets, Charles Dicken’s treacherous River Thames and Frederick Treves’s tragic Elephant Man. Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and Hanif Kureishi are among the many great writers who give us their varied Londons here, revealing a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy.
Author | : Jim Eldridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 9781407121956 |
Twelve stories that transport the reader from the Londinium of two millennia past to the London of 2012, anticipating the Olympic games and a Diamond Jubilee.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : |
47 dramatic short stories with original illustrations.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2557 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 9780804720588 |
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2017-08-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1387152610 |
A collection of Jack London sea stories. CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN (Excerpt) ""If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots. Und you vood pe politeful, und say 'Yessir' und 'No sir.' But you pe in der American ship, and you t'ink you are so good as der able seamen. Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me? I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites."" ""But you are unfair, Emil!"" cried Chris Farrington, his sensitive face flushed and hurt. He was a slender though strongly built young fellow of seventeen, with Yankee ancestry writ large all over him...
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780020223719 |
A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales
Author | : Maria Lexton |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Cities and towns in literature |
ISBN | : |
Contains 25 short stories set in or about London, commissioned by Time Out magazine to celebrate their 25th aniversary in 1993.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780806514079 |
A collection of Jack London popular science fiction short stories, includes "The Star Rover", "Before Adam" and "The Shadow and the Flash"
Author | : Barry Shelby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780307700841 |
This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library. Titles included: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike Revolutionary Road; The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
Author | : Cynthia Cockburn |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Refugees |
ISBN | : 9780745399225 |
A journey through five London boroughs, revealing the lives of asylum seekers today