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Francis Miltoun Dickens' London

Fiction
English
59920 Words
Ages 18 and up
1
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This book is for the lover of Dickens and of London, alike. The former without the memory of the [more]

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Alice Meynell London Impressions

Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure

Fiction
English
12125 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 22 September 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, [more]

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J. Ewing Ritchie About London

Fiction
English
53051 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, About London, by J. Ewing Ritchie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere [more]

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J. Ewing Ritchie About London

Fiction
English
49110 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, About London, by J. Ewing Ritchie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere [more]

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Richard Jefferies AFTER LONDON

Essay
English
84047 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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After London (1885), can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction": after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The book has two parts. The first, "The Relapse into Barbarism", is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England: fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, the hated London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland. The second part, "Wild England", is largely a straightforward adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society (here too Jefferies was setting an example for the genre); but the opening section, despite some improbabilities, has been much admired for its rigour and compelling narrative. Critics dissatisfied with the second part often make an exception of chapters 22-4, which go beyond recreation of a medieval world to give a disturbing and surreal description of the site of the fallen city.[32] Jefferies' interest in catastrophes predates After London: two short unpublished pieces from the 1870s describe social collapse after London is paralysed by freak winter conditions. In the better achieved of these, the narrator is a future historian piecing the story together from surviving accounts.[33] The fantasy of the second part also has a predecessor in a short work, The Rise of Maximin, Emperor of the Occident, serialised in The New Monthly Magazine in 1876, in this case an adventure set in a remote and imaginary past.[34] Although the society that Jefferies depicts after the fall of London is an unpleasant one, with oppressive petty tyrants at war with each other, and insecurity and injustice for the poor, it still served as an inspiration for William Morris's utopian News from Nowhere (1890). In a letter of 1885, he writes of his reaction to After London: "absurd hopes curled around my heart as I read it."[35] After London also influenced M.P. Shiel's disaster novel, The Purple Cloud. [more]

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Lina Jay Paris & London

Drama
English
6597 Words
Ages 18 and up
5
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VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED - ADULT CONTENT Paris Hunter could have any man that she wanted; that included her best friend’s husband as well. As long as she got what she wanted she didn’t care whose feelings she stepped on. She loved sex and hated commitment. She was happily single and didn’t have a care in the world. She loved her life until Dontae walked into it. He turned her life upside down and even tried to kill her! London Hunter was happy with Shawn and she was happy with her life. Her life wasn’t as crazy as her twin sister Paris. She went to work and then spent time with her man afterwards. That’s all she knew; that was her life. Shawn was her world until he showed her otherwise. She thought her life was over when Shawn was over no longer around. But Cedric came into her life and showed her that her life was only beginning. Will Paris finally get the man that she wanted and stay faithful? Will London continue to play with fire by holding on to the wrong man and lusting after another? After the smoke clears, these twins' lives will never be the same again. [more]

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M. E. Braddon London Pride

Or When The World Was Younger

Fiction
English
162658 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era.[1] She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret. Born in London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he became Premier of Tasmania. Mary worked as an actress for three years in order to support herself and her mother. In 1860, Mary met John Maxwell, a publisher of periodicals. She started living with him in 1861. [2] However, Maxwell was already married with five children, and his wife was living in an asylum in Ireland. Mary acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married. She had six children by him, including the novelist William Babington Maxwell. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition as well as fortune. The novel was a bestseller, [2] has been in print ever since its publication, and has been dramatised and filmed several times. R. D. Blackmore's anonymous sensation novel Clara Vaughan (1864) was wrongly attributed to her by some critics. [more]

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RICHARD JEFFERIES AFTER LONDON

Encyclopedia
English
83985 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not." [more]

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Walter Besant The History of London

History
English
65789 Words
No Age Recommendation
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Keywords: London, Engalnd

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Jack London Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories

Fiction
English
59970 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, [more]

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