Fiction
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City (Directions)
A National Geographic Directions paperback of Anna Quindlen's essay about reading London before visiting it, and then finding that the imagined city matched the real one only partially. Quindlen moves through Dickens, Conan Doyle, Waugh, and a host of mystery novelists, treating London as a palimpsest of fiction laid over geography. The National Geographic Directions series gave it a small, travel-friendly format with a cover that tries to look literary and cartographic at the same time. The book is slight but not slight-minded.Ideal reader: the traveler who has already seen a city in novels and is disappointed when the actual streets fail to mention their favorite characters, or the Anglophile who prefers fog to sunshine.
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