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London Stories by Jerry White
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable host of writers who have sought to capture the ess ...Show more
London: The Story of a Great City by Jerry White
Category: Travel
No city can lay claim to a more dramatic history than London. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to mark its end - fire, plague, riot, civil war - from each crisis, it has emerged stronger than ever. Its cultural life, and the long heritage that underpins it, has made London one of the most visited and ...Show more
London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White
Category: History
London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of scientific and artistic genius, of blossomi ...Show more
London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White
Category: History
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. In one hour's walk from west to east, London revealed a cavalcade of life chances - from all the prizes that civilisation could offer on the on ...Show more
London in the Nineteenth Century : A Human Awful Wonder of God by Jerry White
Category: History
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. It was a century of genius - of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, Disraeli and Dickens. Je ...Show more
London in the Twentieth Century by Jerry White
Category: History
This is an authoritative and accessible social and political history of London in the 20th century. Full of anecdotes, the book presents London as a city of sustained (and sometimes delicately balanced) paradox, and of incomparably diverse geography and peoples.
London in the Twentieth Century : A city and its people by Jerry White
Category: History
In 1901, London was the greatest city the world had seen in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. London in 2001 was no longer among the world's very largest cities, but was still one where vast wealth was displayed - alongside beggars sleeping rough. Suc ...Show more
Mansions of Misery : A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison by Jerry White
Category: History
For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital's most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. The Marshalsea became a byword for misery; in the words of one of ...Show more
The Battle of London 1939-45 - Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire by Jerry White
Category: History
The definitive social history of London in the Blitz, which transformed life in the capital beyond recognition. For Londoners the six long years of the Second World War were a time of almost constant anxiety, disruption, deprivation and sacrifice. The Blitz began in earnest in September 1940 and from th ...Show more
The Battle of London 1939-45 - Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire by Jerry White
Category: History
The definitive social history of London in the Blitz, which transformed life in the capital beyond recognition. For Londoners the six long years of the Second World War were a time of almost constant anxiety, disruption, deprivation and sacrifice. The Blitz began in earnest in September 1940 and from t ...Show more
The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear by Jerry White
Category: Junior Fiction
The first book in English about Japan's modern master of fear and horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, it follows him from his humble beginning in the pink film industry through his evolution into a masterful yakuza movie director and the celebrated filmmaker of Cure, Pulse and Loft.