Joseph Road: Choices That Determine Your Destiny, White Jerry

Автор: Jerry White
Название: London In The Eighteenth Century HB
ISBN: 1847921809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847921802
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 22000.00 T
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Автор: White, Jerry
Название: London in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 1847924530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847924537
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Jerry White`s London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city`s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur.

Автор: White, Jerry
Название: London In The Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 1847924476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847924476
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 26400.00 T
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Описание: Jerry White`s London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city`s greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen.

Автор: White Jerry
Название: London Stories
ISBN: 0375712461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375712463
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 12260.00 T
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Описание: 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.
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