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A London Year

365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Published: 3rd Oct 2013
Dimensions: w 166mm h 240mm d 55mm
Weight: 1510g
ISBN-10: 0711234493
ISBN-13: 9780711234499
Barcode No: 9780711234499
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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. 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 todayaEURO (TM)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 cityaEURO (TM)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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aEURO~If you're planning an outing to the capital, it's the perfect appetiser - packed with inspiring detail and observations.aEURO (TM) aEURO~Live everyday life, entries can be both monotonous and vivid, but A London Year will have something to teach residents and visitors alike.aEURO (TM) aEURO~The perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.aEURO (TM)