London in Quotations, Hardcover by Mitchell, Jacqueline (COM), Brand New, Fre...
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London in Quotations, Hardcover by Mitchell, Jacqueline (COM), ISBN 1851244018, ISBN-13 9781851244010, Brand New, Free shipping in the US When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,’ wrote Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a riddle’, a cesspool’ and a modern Babylon’, and both Londoners and visitors alike have continued to share their candid views of a great city in a variety of literary forms. Since its humble beginnings as a ford for oxen across the river Thames in the tenth century, Oxford has been an inspiration to generations of writers and thinkers, who have admired its dreaming spires’ (Matthew Arnold), or warned that it is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent’ (Anthony Trollope). These compact gift books are packed full of witty, scandalous and entertaining quotations about these two famous cities from the Middle Ages to the current decade.
