On ten strolls through some of the most interesting areas of London, Rüdiger Görner explores the literary landscape of the capital. He meets Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, finds Virginia Woolf and Lady Ottoline Morell in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, happens on the Carlyles in Chelsea, comes across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead and searches for Bacon and Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs. Following this literary rambler means discovering familiar places and their history anew, by seeing them through the eyes of those who walked the streets before him.
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Rüdiger Görner is Chair of the Department of German at Queen Mary University, University of London, and Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations. He is the author of many books including most recently a biography of Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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wasn't what i was expecting. i am glad i read it, but it was very different. you could definitely tell that it was written by a german, by the culturally different feel of it. There were many many references to german writers and writing with which i was completely unfamiliar. i enjoyed the times that he wrote about writers and works with which i was familiar. overall it just felt like a strange book.
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Virginia Woolf, Leicester Square, Covent Garden, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, Simon Callow, Little Dorrit, Fleet Street, Elm Park, George Eliot, Thomas More, Curzon Street, Stefan Zweig, Second World War, Russell Square, Great Fire, Westminster Abbey, East End, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Clive Bell, Maria Beadnell, Henry James, John Gay, Charing Cross Road, Kew Gardens Browse Sample Pages:
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