NIGHTWALKING by Matthew Beaumont ( 9781784783785 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NIGHTWALKING
A NOCTURNAL HISTORY OF LONDON

By:

Matthew Beaumont

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1784783781

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9781784783785

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Publisher:

VERSO BOOKS

Pub. date:

29 March, 2016

Pages:

496

Description:

A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met

Synopsis:

In Nightwalking Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London-populated by the poor, the mad, the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. He shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others.

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