Everyman’s Pocket Classics

Everyman’s Pocket Classics

London Stories

a collection compiled by

Jerry White

Publication May 2014, NZ$29.99  RRP hardback

‘Such a long chronological scope gives an insight into the changing preoccupations of Londoners and London writers over that time; and into some of the continuities – trauma both public and private, the never-ending struggle against adversity in the giant city, and the ceaseless stimulation of its delights’. Jerry White

A collection of classic stories from the city with one of the richest of all literary histories, edited by Jerry White, a leading social historian of modern London, and author of three volumes of London in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century.

The collection illustrates the extraordinary diversity of London life over the past four centuries. There are 26 stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Some voices will be familiar; some not so well known. From Thomas Dekker’s vivid catalogue of the horrors of the plague and John Evelyn’s description of the Great Fire of London to the contemporary writing of Hanif Kureshi revealing a city transformed by multiculturalism and gentrification, Jerry White's selection of stories provides a dazzling mosaic of a fascinating city.

Authors also include Thomas de Quincey, W. M. Thackeray, Henry Mayhew, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Gissing, J. B. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Maeve Binchy, Doris Lessing, and Shena Mackay.

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