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Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore,

its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and

drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross,

Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the

Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The

Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and

night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen

observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and

visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of

London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its

inimitable soul, the city comes alive.

List of Illustrations

Chronology

Acknowledgements

The City as Body

The Sea!

The Stones

Holy! Holy! Holy!

You Be All Law Worthy

Loud and Everlasting

Silence Is Golden

This Companye

Rather Dark and Narrow

Packed to Blackness

Maps and Antiquarians

……

Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and

nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies

Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and

The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Biography

Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award

(jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The

Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London.

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?Magnificent. . . . Succeeds in animating on the page the life

of one of the oldest and greatest cities in the world.?--The New

York Times Book Review

?Ackroyd is the most effortless guide. . . . This is much more than

history: it is a tapestry of inspiration and love.? --The

Observer

?An erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city. . . .

As exuberant, energetic and alarming as the city itself.?

--Independent on Sunday

?A fat and filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about

the capital is crammed into the eight-hundred pages.?--The

Times

?If London had the ability to choose its biographer it undoubtedly

would tap Peter Ackroyd.?--Vanity Fair

?A wonderful book, a treasure of information and anecdote

about one of the world?s great cities, a book to be taken up again

and again for the pleasures that lie within.?--Chicago

Tribune

?A book to match its subject . . . one gratefully

rediscovers that urban unreality, the city of romance and mystery

as well as the one of shops, pubs, and thoroughfares.? --The

Washington Post

-- Review

书籍介绍

Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.