Literary London: A Street By Street Exploration Of The Capitals Literary Heritage

By Ed Glinert

From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning London is and always has been crammed with literary life. Playwrights novelists diarists poets and essayists throughout the centuries have roamed its streets met in its cafes and retaurants and strolled in its parks and gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments churches law courts and theatres and have created fictional Londoners as diverse as Mr Pickwick Sherlock Holmes Bertie Wooster Mrs Dalloway and Winston Smith whose fortunes are played out against a London backdrop. This updated edition of The Penguin Literary Guide to London is a must for all book lovers and readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141026243
• ISBN13: 9780141026244
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.9" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

An in-depth survey of London's literary history

As much for destination travelers as browsers, this provides an in-depth survey of London's literary history, listing local bookshops and specialties, settings which have appeared in famous classics, and describing themed walking tours of London. Any with an interest in London - particular those visiting - and literary history will relish this guide.