Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Frances LincolnISBN-13:9780711287648ISBN-10:711287643UPC:9780711287648Book Category:History, Art, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Europe, HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.76 x 7.48 x 1.18 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCR8PE1W5J
Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City
No city shaped the modern world quite like London - a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and politics, its true life played out in the streets, where market traders, music hall crowds and factory workers gave it its vitality, its light and its shadows.
Forgotten London uncovers its stories,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Frances LincolnISBN-13:9780711287648ISBN-10:711287643UPC:9780711287648Book Category:History, Art, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Europe, HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.76 x 7.48 x 1.18 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCR8PE1W5J
London has been the main character in the work of Peter Ackroyd ever since his first novel, The Great Fire of London. His Hawksmoor won the Whitbread and the Guardian Fiction Prize, Chatterton was shortlisted for the Booker, London: the Biography won the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature. Reviewers commonly categorize him as the Dickens of our day.
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