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Literary London
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Introduction
- High Life v Low Life
Battling for the literary soul
of London we have two talented teams of scribes. First, let us
introduce High Life, a group of writers apparently united in
the desire to portray London as a glittering playground for the
rich and cultured.
Lining up to rough them up
a bit is the Low Life sect, a load of word smiths keen to hammer
on the door of respectability by revealing the soiled underbelly
of the city.
High Lifers range from PG Wodehouse
with his delicious upper crust lampoonery to Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, whose pipe smoking/coke snorting detective Sherlock Holmes
has come to exemplify a certain kind of disinterested Englishness
the world over.
Low Life types include the
master himself Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Martin Amis and
Hanif Kureishi, who managed to extend the definition of low life
into the no-man's land that is suburbia.
In this unique LondonNet guide,
we've gone for a double top ten. One list picks out a decile
of famous books that reflect the major themes of Literary London.
The other goes walkies around the capital on a sole sapping search
for booky craic.
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