"London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions.……" — Peter Ackroyd

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history… - Peter Ackroyd

"London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself."

— Peter Ackroyd

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