A HISTORY OF LONDON

"I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street: the innumerable trades, tradesmen and customers: coaches, waggons, playhouses: all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden: the very women of the Town: the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles - life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night: the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street: the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and pavements: the print-shops, the old book-stalls, parsons cheapening books: cofee-houses, steams of soups from kitchens: the pantomimes - London itself a pantomime and a masquerade: all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me without the power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights impels me into night walks about her crowded streets, and often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life." Charles Lamb, in his letter to William Wordsworth refusing an invitation to visit the Lake District.

INWOOD, Stephen. A History of London. 1a ed. London: MACMILLAN, 1998. Capa dura com sobre-capa, 1111 páginas, ótimo estado.

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