To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly /5(4). With deftly sketched vignettes and memorable portraits in miniature, Wilson conjures up the essence of London through the ages–high finance and gambling during the Georgian age, John Nash’s stunning urban makeover at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the waves of building and immigration that transformed London beyond recognition during the reign of Queen Victoria, the devastation of the /5(16). London: a history / A.N. Wilson. Author: Wilson, A. N., Published: New York: Modern Library, Physical Description: pages ; 20 cm. Availability. I Want It. Finding items Contents: Prelude: A London history -- New Troy or Roman London? -- Norman London -- Chaucer's London -- Tudor and Stuart London -- Restoration -- Georgian.
London A History. Hardcover, London: Weidenfeld Nicholson, First Edition. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. A superb short history of London, with room for political and social history of every sort, by A. N. Wilson, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and mulitple prize winner for biography. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task-yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly accomplishes it in London: A www.doorway.rud by the Romans, London was a flourishing provincial capital before falling into ruin with the rest of the. In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the.
London: A History (Chronicles) by. A.N. Wilson. · Rating details · ratings · 63 reviews. In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. Overview. In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly accomplishes it in London. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly.
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