'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very cordially hate it, fascinates us all. And, paying my visit, I have desired to give some such record.
I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological. To use a phrase of literary slang I have tried to "get the atmosphere" of modern London -- of the town in which I have passed so many days; of the immense place that has been the background for so many momentous happenings to so many of my fellows.' - Summary by Ford Madox Ford, from the Introductory; 1905.
I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological. To use a phrase of literary slang I have tried to "get the atmosphere" of modern London -- of the town in which I have passed so many days; of the immense place that has been the background for so many momentous happenings to so many of my fellows.' - Summary by Ford Madox Ford, from the Introductory; 1905.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.1
32:03 - Chapter 2
Chapter I. From A Distance, pt.2
23:30 - Chapter 3
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.1
17:08 - Chapter 4
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.2
18:58 - Chapter 5
Chapter II. Roads Into London, pt.3
16:06 - Chapter 6
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.1
31:46 - Chapter 7
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.2
26:58 - Chapter 8
Chapter III. Work In London, pt.3
11:13 - Chapter 9
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.1
22:35 - Chapter 10
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.2
23:54 - Chapter 11
Chapter IV. London At Leisure, pt.3
14:31 - Chapter 12
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.1
22:41 - Chapter 13
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.2
17:08 - Chapter 14
Chapter V. Rest In London, pt.3
17:38