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Bohemian London: From Thomas de Quincey to Jeffrey Bernard

Travis Elborough

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Description:For more than 150 years, the garrets and pubs of Soho, the salons of Chelsea, the opium dens of Limehouse, and the brothels of Covent Garden teemed with poets, painters, derelicts, drunks, sensualists, homosexuals, crooks, and cranks. In Bohemian London, Travis Elborough chronicles de Qunincey and Coleridge's hazy laudanum days in Tyburnia; toasts Wilde at the Cafe Royal; imbibes absinthe with Yeats at the Cheshire Cheese; snorts cocaine with Aleister Crowley; sips bitter with Dylan Thomas; and catches last orders with Francis Bacon. While true Bohemians may be long gone, their style, mores, addictions, and excesses did much to shape the city we know today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bohemian London: From Thomas de Quincey to Jeffrey Bernard. To get started finding Bohemian London: From Thomas de Quincey to Jeffrey Bernard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Oldcastle Books

Release: 2017

ISBN: 1843448211

Description: For more than 150 years, the garrets and pubs of Soho, the salons of Chelsea, the opium dens of Limehouse, and the brothels of Covent Garden teemed with poets, painters, derelicts, drunks, sensualists, homosexuals, crooks, and cranks. In Bohemian London, Travis Elborough chronicles de Qunincey and Coleridge's hazy laudanum days in Tyburnia; toasts Wilde at the Cafe Royal; imbibes absinthe with Yeats at the Cheshire Cheese; snorts cocaine with Aleister Crowley; sips bitter with Dylan Thomas; and catches last orders with Francis Bacon. While true Bohemians may be long gone, their style, mores, addictions, and excesses did much to shape the city we know today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bohemian London: From Thomas de Quincey to Jeffrey Bernard. To get started finding Bohemian London: From Thomas de Quincey to Jeffrey Bernard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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