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Nairn's London (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ian Nairn
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Description for Nairn's London (Penguin Modern Classics)
mass_market. Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 118 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
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'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.'
Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
368
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141396156
SKU
KJH0000142
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian Nairn
Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a hugely influential and pugnacious architectural critic, inventor of the crushing term 'subtopia' and central to the growth of the British conservation movement. He co-wrote with Nikolaus Pevsner the Sussex volume in the Buildings of England series. London was his great obsession and Nairn's London his lasting monument. He once paid his wife the compliment of ... Read more
Reviews for Nairn's London (Penguin Modern Classics)
A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase
Jonathan Meades Once you discover him, which in my case was through my dad's copy of Nairn's London, you want ... Read more
Jonathan Meades Once you discover him, which in my case was through my dad's copy of Nairn's London, you want ... Read more