*Lovely! A Short History of London PDF Book (by Sinead Fitzgibbon)
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Over the centuries, many of the world?s most celebrated writers have chronicled the life and times of the world?s first great metropolis ? that remarkable city we call London. From the Roman historian, Tacitus, to the diarist Samuel Pepys, to Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, these luminaries of the literary world have all, in their own unique way, contributed to the vast canon of London description we now have at our disposal. But perhaps it was Samuel Johnson who most effectively distilled the unique and almost unquantifiable essence of the city when, in 1777, he wrote: ?You find no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.? And London has, indeed, seen and done it all. It has been the focus of attack by everyone from the Vikings and William the Conqueror to Adolf Hitler and the IRA. It was the nucleus of the Great British Empire, but
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