A Short History of London (Universal History) - Hardcover

Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842126792 ISBN 13: 9781842126790

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2004

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Reseña del editor:

In this short history of London the bestselling author A.N. Wilson traces London¿s colourful and dramatic history over the last 2000 years from being a backwater in the Classical age to an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban centre to the modern colossus that it is today. From Roman times to the present, it has been a city which has evolved, if not by mistake then haphazard. It is not a great capital city in the sense that Rome, St Petersburg or Paris are great capitals. There has been no English Peter the Great, or Sixtus the Fifth or Louis Quatorze or Napoleon; hence in London no despot was ever in a position to level the place to the ground and start again, or to plan it according to some great design. It is a city which has rebuilt and reinvented itself in each generation. Its history is one of remarkable resilience ¿ it has survived great fires, pestilence, civil war, the Blitz ¿ and of stark contrasts ¿ pageantry, wealth, poverty, squalor. It has been the home or inspiration for countless writers and artists (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr Johnson, Pepys, Hogarth, Dickens). A N Wilson will look at the interaction between the city¿s people, architecture, economy, criminal London, low life and high life, beggars and politicians, Royal families, intellectuals to bring alive the history of a city which was once the centre of the greatest mercantile empire the world has ever known.

Biografía del autor:

A N Wilson was born in 1950. He has written biographies of Jesus, St Paul, Milton and Sir Walter Scott, and TOLSTOY won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. He is also the author of 12 novels, including WISE VIRGIN which won the W H Smith award. He used to be the Literary Editor of the EVENING STANDARD and now writes a regular column for the STANDARD, DAILY TELEGRAPH, and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

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• Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842126792
• ISBN 13: 9781842126790
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192