London Stories
Title | London Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry White |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375712461 |
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place. 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. These are stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between, some from well-known voices and others practically unknown. Here are dramatic views of such iconic events as the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Blitz, but also William Thackeray’s account of going to see a man hanged, Thomas De Quincey’s friendship with a teenaged prostitute, and Doris Lessing’s defense of the Underground. This literary London encompasses the famous Baker Street residence of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the bombed-out moonscape of Elizabeth Bowen’s wartime streets, Charles Dicken’s treacherous River Thames and Frederick Treves’s tragic Elephant Man. Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and Hanif Kureishi are among the many great writers who give us their varied Londons here, revealing a city of boundless wealth and ragged squalor, of moving tragedy and riotous joy.
London Stories
Title | London Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Eldridge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN | 9781407121956 |
Twelve stories that transport the reader from the Londinium of two millennia past to the London of 2012, anticipating the Olympic games and a Diamond Jubilee.
Stories of adventure
Title | Stories of adventure PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
47 dramatic short stories with original illustrations.
The Complete Short Stories of Jack London
Title | The Complete Short Stories of Jack London PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2557 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Short stories, American |
ISBN | 9780804720588 |
Short Stories of Jack London
Title | Short Stories of Jack London PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | Free Press |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780020223719 |
A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales
The Time Out Book of London Short Stories
Title | The Time Out Book of London Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Lexton |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Cities and towns in literature |
ISBN |
Contains 25 short stories set in or about London, commissioned by Time Out magazine to celebrate their 25th aniversary in 1993.
Everyman's Library American Contemporaries
Title | Everyman's Library American Contemporaries PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Shelby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780307700841 |
This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library. Titles included: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike Revolutionary Road; The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion