These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Maeve Binchy, Doris Lessing, Hanif Kureishi and Shena Mackay. Thackeray, Henry Mayhew, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, J.
But all give us insights into these writers’ very varied Londons and all tell their stories gratifyingly well.Īuthors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey, W. Some voices will be familiar to many readers and others practically unknown. They are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. 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. 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. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world.
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