The Great Fire of London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Fire of London write by Samuel Pepys. This book was released on 2015-03-19. The Great Fire of London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
The Great Fire of London in 1666
The Great Fire of London in 1666 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Fire of London in 1666 write by Walter George Bell. This book was released on 1920. The Great Fire of London in 1666 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great Fire of London 350th Anniversary
The Great Fire of London 350th Anniversary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Fire of London 350th Anniversary write by Emma Adams. This book was released on 2016-11-01. The Great Fire of London 350th Anniversary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1666, London's citizens woke to see the skyline above their city's cramped wooden houses ablaze. The Great Fire of London is a hauntingly beautiful visual re-telling of one of the most well-known disasters in the city's history. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of the fire, powerful and sumptuous drawings from the new east London illustrator, James Weston Lewis, bring the events of November 1666 to life in this stunning gift book. Lewis's drawings take readers on a journey, from the single smouldering coal that falls out of the baker's oven to the swirling clouds of ash that engulf the city and then in to the very heart of the fire itself. As the pages turn, you can witness London burning to the ground and then rebuilding again. Children will love examining the rich detail of each spread, from the detailed city map to the drawings of London before, during and after the fire took hold. This book takes the dramatic historical information surrounding the Great Fire of London and transforms it into a breathtaking story that will transfix readers of all ages.
London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666
London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 write by Jacob F. Field. This book was released on 2017-08-07. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England. The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Fire of London write by Neil Hanson. This book was released on 2010-01-26. The Great Fire of London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
