London Stories: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics - Hardcover

Secker Tesdell, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841596167 ISBN 13: 9781841596167

Publisher: Everyman, 2014

Synopsis

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the essence of London and what it meant for the people who lived there or were merely passing through. They found a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy; and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town.
They are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Some voices will be familiar to many readers and others practically unknown. But all give us insights into these writers’ very varied Londons; and all tell their stories gratifyingly well.

Authors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey, W. M. Thackeray, Henry Mayhew, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, J. B. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Maeve Binchy, Doris Lessing, Hanif Kureishi and Shena Mackay.

About this title

Review:

"In London Stories, the city's sprawling historical and literary landscape is served up in a tidy collection of 26 short works that span four centuries. . . . Jerry White doesn't stint on delivering the goods on London's dark side, which, of course, will delight true London devotees. . . . For the literary-minded traveler, the book is a gold mine." --The New York Times

"The latest of the covetable Everyman Pocket Classics. . . . London Stories boasts 432 rewarding pages. . . . [White] has mixed up these London stories very inventively." --Evening Standard (London)

Book Description:

A collection of some thirty stories to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of both London life and London writing over the past four centuries, from the time of Shakespeare to the present day. Beautiful hardback gift edition with silk ribbon and sewn binding.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1841596167
• ISBN 13: 9781841596167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400