Haunted London (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Thornbury, Walter) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Haunted London This book deals not so much with the London of the ghost-stories, the scratching impostor in Cock-lane, or the apparition of Parson Ford at the Hummums, as with the London consecrated by manifold traditions - a city every street and alley of which teems with interesting associations, every paving-stone of which marks, as it were, the abiding-place of some ancient legend or biographical story; in short, this London of the present haunted by the memories of the past. The slow changes of time, the swifter destructions of improvement, and the inevitable necessities of modern civilization, are rapidly remodelling London. It took centuries to turn the bright, swift little rivulet of the Fleet into a fetid sewer, years to transform the palace at Bridewell into a prison; but events now move faster: the alliance of money with enterprise, and the absence of any organized resistance to needful though sometimes rather reckless improvements, all combine to hurry forward modern changes. If an alderman of the last century could arise from his sleep, he would shudder to see the scars and wounds from which London is now suffering. Viaducts stalk over our chief roads; great square tubes of iron lie heavy as nightmares on the breast of Ludgate-hill. 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.
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