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Author:

Dailey, Donna.

Title:

London / Donna Dailey and John Tomedi ; introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher:

Chelsea House,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xv, 231 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Literary landmarks--London--London--Guidebooks.
Authors, English--Homes and haunts--London--London--Guidebooks.
English literature--London--London--History and criticism.
London (England)--Intellectual life--Guidebooks.
London (England)--In literature--Guidebooks.
London (England)--Guidebooks.
Literary landmarks--London (England)--Guidebooks.
English authors--Homes--London (England)--Guidebooks.
English literature--History and criticism.
London (England)--Intellectual life--Guidebooks.
London (England) in literature--Guidebooks.
London (England)--Guidebooks.

Other Authors:

Tomedi, John.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index.

Contents:

London today -- After the conquest -- Elizabethan London -- London and the Restoration -- Georgian and Regency London -- Victorian times -- London at the turn of the twentieth century -- London between the wars -- The London of Gravity's rainbow -- The millennial city.

Summary:

Discusses London locations that have inspired or been home to such authors as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Salman Rushdie, arranged period by period from the Norman Conquest through the end of the twentieth century, and provides addresses and brief descriptions of approximately ninety places to visit.

Series:

Bloom's literary places

ISBN:

9780791083604 (pbk.)
0791083608 (pbk.)
9780791078419 (alk. paper)
0791078418 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004018928

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SYPB124 -- Elizabeth Rasmussen Martin Memorial Lib. (New Hartford)