A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters

by Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison

Book Overview

A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today'e(tm)s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0711234493
• ISBN13: 9780711234499
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"