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<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK<br></b><br>Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, ke
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- Author
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385497701
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Great Britain, European History
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (3,607 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- London - The Biography (London a Biography) (2010)
- London : A Biography (2000)
- London : A Biography (2009)
- لندن: سيرة ذاتية [Arabic] (2009)
- London : the Biography (2000)
- London : the Biography (2009)
- Лондон : биография (2007)
- London : the Concise Biography (2012)
- London - The Biography (London a Biography) (2001)
- Лондон: биография: [12+] (2001)
- London : A Biography (2010)
- London: biografiia (2005)
- London : the Biography (2003)
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