Imagined London
Subtitle: a tour of the world's greatest fictional city
By: Anna Quindlen
Series: National Geographic directions
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780792265610
Subjects: English literature; Literary landmarks; Literarische Stätte; History and criticism; Literatur; English Authors; Homes and haunts; Intellectual life; In literature
Description: "This book is a tale of three cities: the fictional London that lives in the pages of writers from Shakespeare to P. D. James and Martin Amis; the historical metropolis where so many immortal authors have made their homes; and the vibrant capital that today welcomes visitors from all over the world. Anna Quindlen evokes all three as she travels from Sherlock Holmes's digs at 221b Baker Street (as real an imaginary address as there ever was), to Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, a memorial to the greatest writers of our language, to Hyde Park Gate, the genteel neighborhood from which Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga unfolds. We stroll through elegant squares that summon the ghosts of characters from Thackeray and Trollope, and pause at a pub whose ornate sign would be familiar to anyone - real or fictional - from Shakespeare's era to today."

"At once a tribute to one of the world's greatest cities and a freewheeling celebration of the rich literature it has inspired, this is a writer's vision of a world both imagined and utterly true - all gathered, refracted, and reflected in a magical mirror called London."--BOOK JACKET.