Book description
From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary
life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists throughout
the centuries have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and retaurants
and strolled in its parks and gardens. They have been inspired by its
monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and have created fictional
Londoners as diverse as Mr Pickwick, Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster,
Mrs Dalloway and Winston Smith, whose fortunes are played out against a
London backdrop. This updated edition of The Penguin Literary Guide to
London is a must for all book lovers and readers. Ed Glinert was born
in Dalston, east London. He is the author of
The London Compendium
, East End Chronicles
and Literary London
and leads a variety of walking tours around London. His fascination
with people and place, the bizarre and the arcane, coupled with his
forensic gift for digging out obscure stories, is perfectly suited to
this uniquely interesting place.
