London Year

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781781311448

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A London Year by Anonim Pdf

A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today’ s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common. Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the city’ s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, A London Year is the perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.

Author : Travis Elborough,Nick Rennison
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780711234499

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London Year by Travis Elborough,Nick Rennison Pdf

A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. This ebook edition, with its own distinct cover, has been optimised for the digital reader. A hyperlinked contents page makes it easy for the reader to dip in and out of the book while each 'page' is dedicated to a separate day. To further improve formatting, the illustrations from the printed edition have been omitted. We promise this does not detract from the reading experience. This ebook serves as the perfect accompaniment to the print edition. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today’s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common. Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the city’s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, the ebook of A London Year is the perfect read for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.

Author : John Stow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10281965

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A Survey of London, witten in the year 1598 by John Stow by John Stow Pdf

Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470450703

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The Great Fire of London by Neil Hanson Pdf

Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)

Author : Frederick Martin,Sir John Scott Keltie,Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick,Mortimer Epstein,Sigfrid Henry Steinberg,John Paxton,Brian Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Economic geography
ISBN : PRNC:32101072368267

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The Statesman's Year-book by Frederick Martin,Sir John Scott Keltie,Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick,Mortimer Epstein,Sigfrid Henry Steinberg,John Paxton,Brian Hunter Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948630

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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Pdf

Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : Karen White
Publisher : Moon Travel
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781631211621

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Moon Living Abroad London by Karen White Pdf

Writer and adoptive Londoner Karen White knows what it takes to make the move to London. In Moon Living Abroad London, she shares her seasoned advice on transplanting to this bustling English city. From obtaining visas and arranging your finances to finding employment and choosing schools for your kids, White uses her firsthand knowledge of London to ensure that you have all the tools you need to navigate the ins and outs of the relocation process. Packed with essential information and must-have details on setting up daily life, plus extensive color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad London will help you find your bearings as you settle into your new home and life abroad.

Author : David Gentleman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141974880

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London, You're Beautiful by David Gentleman Pdf

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design. David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners, that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743978

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London Fields by Martin Amis Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME). “Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112033766269

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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : OXFORD:555076751

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The Banking Almanac, Directory, Year Book and Diary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UFL:31262095995261

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The Economist by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Edward Henry Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electric power
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU04840488

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A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Edward Henry Gordon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112061589617

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Investors Chronicle and Money Market Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : OXFORD:555068959

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf