London. Westminster Bridge and Southbank Book Market. 1995-2012-2015
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) said that who got tired of London, got tired of life. But another great English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), wrote that hell is a city much like london. I, who am only me, say that every time I have stepped on London simply I have been happy. Both as the umpteenth tourist and living there when I did for a while.
Its history, its environments, its smells, its thousand corners they lead you to recreate a thousand other such stories. And they also inspire you to create them. That Westminster Bridge has witnessed such recent glories and tragedies. And that popular book market on Southbank, containing hundreds of universal and local titles. Today I want to mention some books about this city and invite everyone to visit or return. No more reasons. It's london.
Would be impossible to make a list of so many stories that London has inspired or that unfold in it. Huge names in literature, medium and small. Anonymous or amateur writers that we find a word, a phrase or an image. Without even knowing the city.
Because who did not dance in the halls of those parties that the Dashwood sisters attended en Sense and Sensibility? Who has not seen or imagined Dickens' London? Who has not visited the cemetery of high gate and he has not believed that he could see the shadow of Lucy westenra?
London - Edward Rutherfurd
Maybe the title best known (and bulky) to soak up this city from your fundación in a small Celtic settlement to the bombardments of the Second World War, going through the invasion of the legions of Caesar in 54 BC, the Crusades, the normans, the creation of Globe, the theater where Shakespeare would premiere his plays, the religious tensions, Big fire from 1666, the Victorian era ... Lots of stories that mix real and fictional characters, which belong to a few family sagas that are perpetuated through the centuries.
The Infiltrator - Stephen Leather
La first novel from the agent series Dan shepherd, also known as Spider. Stephen Leather perfectly recreates the tense and seedy atmosphere of London underworld and puts Shepherd in a game full of traps that keeps the suspense going until the end.
London Stories - Doris Lessing
British writer, award Literature Nobel ten years ago, he went to the tumultuous, motley and multiracial London of the late twentieth century to set the eighteen stories that make up this volume of stories.
Lessing touched on one of his favorite themes: the critical portrait of the English bourgeoisie. These stories relate the difficulties, experiences and many surprises that family relationships and love relationships contain, with the very British importance of conventions as a backdrop.
The Man from London - Georges Simenon
Simenon wrote The man from London in 1933, his first title considered serious after the popular novels that had given him so much success until then.
One winter night, in the French port of Dieppe, the railway switchman, louis maloin watch the arrival of a ship. But then he will witness a scene that turns him upside down: a man falls into the water hugging a suitcase while his killer flees in the dark. Maloin will decide to dive into the waters of the dock and retrieve the suitcase. Curiosity overcomes him and ... the contents of the suitcase take his breath away. Things will get more complicated when after a few days he discovers the presence of the murderer.
London Stories - Enric González
Enrique Gonzalez, journalist who was a London correspondent for El País, he reels us his experiences, stories and characters in the time it was there. A very personal and enjoyable title.
To finish
It doesn't matter the title, the moment or the story. Anything let him have the word London printed deserves atención.