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.
This ebook edition, with its own distinct cover, has been optimised for the digital reader. A hyperlinked contents page makes it easy for the reader to dip in and out of the book while each ‘page’ is dedicated to a separate day. To further improve formatting, the illustrations from the printed edition have been omitted. We promise this does not detract from the reading experience. This ebook serves as the perfect accompaniment to the print edition.
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 today’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 city’s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, the ebook of A London Year is the perfect read for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.
Inhoudsopgave
200 diarists, including:
James Agate
Elias Ashmole
W.N.P. Barbellion
Tony Benn
Alan Bennett
John Betjeman
James Boswell
Elizabeth Bowen
Ford Madox Brown
Fanny Burney
Dora Carrington
Alan Clark
Ossie Clark
John Dee
Charles Dickens
Bubb Dodington
Maria Edgeworth
Edward VI
Dickon Edwards
George Eliot
John Evelyn
Michael Faraday
Joseph Farington
Caroline Fox
George Gissing
Alec Guinness
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Derek Jarman
John Keats
Oona King
Charles Lamb
James Lees-Milne
Henry Machyn
Thomas Moore
Harold Nicolson
Michael Palin
Samuel Pepys
Vita Sackville-West
Jonathan Swift
W. M. Thackeray
Vincent Van Gogh
Queen Victoria
Horace Walpole
Evelyn Waugh
John Wesley
Virginia Woolf
Joan Wyndham
Over de auteur
A former bookseller and Web-site editor, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, and cultural commentator for the last decade. His books include The Bus We Loved: London’s Affair with the Routemaster and The Vinyl Countdown. Nick Rennison has worked as a writer, editor, and bookseller for more than twenty years. His London Blue Plaque Guide has been through three editions in the last decade and he has also published The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that ‘can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn’t know.’ Both of them live in London.5.764 E-boeken in deze categorie
