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What is London : a Literary Companion about?
There is no city more talked about, or written about, than London. Each district, each landmark has literary associations hardly separable from the stones themselves. Some of them are well known, even hackneyed. Here you can see suburbia through the eyes of P.G. Wodehouse, or blitzed ruins through those of Rose Macaulay, or Hampstead society through Ezra Pound's. Max Beerbohm can introduce you to the goat that used to live in Piccadilly, and Victor Hugo to Charles II's watchman, whose job was to
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Vansittart
- Publisher
- John Murray Pubs Limited
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719550140
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Travel, Short Stories
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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