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Roy Porter
London [EPUB ebook]
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‘Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book… Porter’s facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, … a timely and brilliant book.’ CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD ‘A vivid celebration of ...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141939278 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2000 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2270620 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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