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London of the mind, the heart and the eye is displayed, discussed and dissected in this classic work of 1962. With eloquence and understated wit, V S Pritchett presents a pithy, knowledgeable distillation of the essential London - a panorama of its history, art, literature and daily life. Here is the city that Londoners know, a paradox of grandeur and grime, the locus of bustling markets and tranquil parks, of palaces and pubs, of docks and railway depots, of the ancient and modern. It is a lovi...Vis mer