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Nick Rennison - Bohemian London, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Bohemian London

From Pre-Raphaelites to Punk

Av Nick Rennison

209 kr

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London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians.This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide to its more colourful inhabitants: Rossetti and Swinburne, defying the morality of high Victorian England; Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley in the decadent 1890s; The Bloomsburyites and the Bright Young Things; Dylan Thomas, boozing in the Blitz; and Francis Bacon and his cronies, wasting time and getting wasted in 1950s Soho.It's also a guide to the places where Bohemia has flourished: the legendary Café Royal, a home from home to artists and writers for nearly a century, the Cave of the Golden Calf, the Colony Room, the Gargoyle Club and more.The story of Bohemian London is one of drink and drugs, sex and death, excess and indulgence. It's also a story of achievement and success. This book provides a lively and enjoyable portrait of the world in which Bohemian Londoners once lived, and perhaps still do.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-08
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Oldcastle Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780857306418
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NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in modern history and in crime fiction. He is the author of Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain, 1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis, 1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year, A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books, and the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and Daily Mail.

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This miscellany of miscreants comes highly recommended for anyone with an interest in London's colourful cultural history, and for readers who are fuelled by the flames of rebellion

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