A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and simple citizens, its foods and drinks and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin within the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London all the time of day and night, and in a wide variety of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and guests, Ackroyd unearths the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a novel thematic tour of the physical town and its inimitable soul, town comes alive.
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and simple citizens, its foods and drinks and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin within the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London all the time of day and night, and in a wide variety of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and guests, Ackroyd unearths the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a novel thematic tour of the physical town and its inimitable soul, town comes alive.
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