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'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book...Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ...a timely and brilliant book.' - Claire Tomalin, "Evening Standard". 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' - Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: London
• Author: Roy Porter
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560
• EAN: 9780140105933
• ISBN: 014010593X
• ID: 04022882
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. October 2000

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