Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Towns and Types
I cannot presume to write Of London from within. I am sorry for the man who can. Some have tried it, and have failed more or less gloriously. TO know London you must have lived in it over a hundred years, starved in it, worked in it, played in it, been good in it, and gone to the devil in it. London is not a city; it is a hundred cities. It is not the capital Of England it is the capital Of the world. It is not rich, for wealth above a certain amount deserves a wider name. It is not poor, for that cannot explain its poverty. It is just i London, unique, shrouded with a glamour I that takes our eyes from its defects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
