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  London in fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many works of fiction are set in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.
Wooster lives mainly in London, and is a member of the Drones Club.
London Bridge is obviously mentioned in London Bridge is falling down.
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 London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union.
London's metropolitan area grew considerably during the Victorian era and again during the Interwar period with expansion halted in the 1940s by World War II and Green Belt legislation and has been largely static since.
London is one of the main fashion capitals (alongside Paris, New York City and Milan) and is home to some of the finest haute couture in the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London   (5753 words)

  
 London - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union Focus on London - Largest EU city Office of National Statistics.
London is one of the "big four" fashion capitals (alongside Paris, New York City and Milan) and is home to some of the finest haute couture in the world.
London's two Anglican bishops are the Bishop of London, whose see is London north of the Thames, and whose throne is in London's grandest church, the baroque St Paul's Cathedral (designed by Sir Christopher Wren), and the Bishop of Southwark, who tends to Anglicans south of the river.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/London   (8155 words)

  
 London -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
London is a leader in international finance [2], politics, communications, entertainment, fashion and the arts and has considerable influence worldwide.
The population of the urban area of London at the 2001 census, as calculated by the Office for National Statistics, was 8,278,251 inhabitants [6].
London is one of the "big four" fashion capitals (alongside Paris, New York City, Milan, and sometimes Tokyo) and is home to some of the finest haute couture in the world.
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/London   (7945 words)

  
 Fiction: Jack London
Jack London (1876-1916), unlike Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and most of the early American writers who wrote stories about the American West, was born in that region—in San Francisco.
London regarded his adventure stories as inferior to his political writing, however; they were merely a means of making money to meet his expanding interests in social reform as a Socialist speaker and political candidate.
London's death, possibly by his own hand, strangely echoed the events of his semi-autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1909), in which a writer achieves success, but after rejecting Socialist aims finds his life meaningless and commits suicide.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/london.htm   (450 words)

  
 Jack London
After leaving school at the age of 14, London worked as a seaman, rode in freight trains as a hobo and adopted socialistic views as a member of the protest armies of the unemployed.
Her culture was a surface smear, her deepest depth a singing shallow." London left the school before the year was over and went to seek a fortune in the Klondike gold rush of 1897.
London's financial affairs were in chaos, his teeth gave him incessant pain, and he began to buy plots from a struggling writer, Sinclair Lewis, to produce more articles and stories for sale.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jlondon.htm   (1928 words)

  
 CliffsNotes::White Fang:Book Summary and Study Guide
London’s story “The Shadow and the Flash” (1903) has as its concern the quest for invisibility on the part of two scientists.
Plagued with debts throughout his life, London accepted an offer from Macmillan in 1902 for $2,000.00 for The Call of the Wild, which is all of the money that London ever received from what is perhaps his most famous book.
In 1913, London published John Barleycorn, a book about his alcoholism, and a book that should be considered as a sincere tract describing the plight of the alcoholic.
www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-49,pageNum-2.html   (499 words)

  
 Jack London - Biography and Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Without having much formal education, London educated himself in public libraries, and at the age of 19 gained admittance to the University of California at Berkeley.
London had purchased in 1910 a large tract of land near Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, and devoted his energy and money improving and enlarging his Beauty Ranch.
In 1913 London's Beauty Ranch burned to the ground, and his doctor told him that his kidneys were failing.
www.online-literature.com /london   (692 words)

  
 The Science Fiction of Jack London
In some stories, London emphasizes "social science fiction," the problems of society, particularly the exploitation of workers and the materialism of capitalism.
London's science fiction shows the influence of such horror fantasy writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe, and the popular science fiction writers of the late 19th century, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Stanley Waterloo.
Themes already familiar to turn-of-the-century readers reoccur in London's stories: invisibility, humans turned into beasts, worldwide pestilence, cataclysmic war, indefinable terrors, ghosts, time travel, extra sensory perception (this, before the term was even in the vocabulary).
london.sonoma.edu /Essays/scifi.html   (749 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: London Holiday
For three American women, a brief, summer vacation in London becomes an unexpected journey of self-awareness for which there is no return ticket.
London's most prestigious bed and breakfast awaits, promising to be the ideal base from which to start anew.
Author Richard Peck may be best known for his many young adult novels, but London Holiday, his fourth novel for adults, is further proof that he is as accurate an observer of older hearts as he is of less experienced ones.
www.bookpage.com /9806bp/fiction/london_holiday.html   (399 words)

  
 Science Fiction Book Reviews: Utopia; Fantastic Tales
Walker, in his introduction, notes London's literary reputation as a gritty realist, based on his famous stories of the Klondike and the South Seas.
London's view of the role of science and technology in society is a mixed one.
He also remarkably anticipates the late-20th-century ascendancy of Asia, the displacement of conventional warfare by economics among the major powers, and biological warfare in "The Unparalleled Invasion," though the story is somewhat marred by his racial stereotyping.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue96/books.html   (1105 words)

  
 The Jack London Online Collection
London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for ranching through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40.
Photographs of Jack London, his family, friends, and the places in which he lived, worked, and traveled.
London resources for those needing to do homework (plot summaries, etc.).
london.sonoma.edu   (331 words)

  
 THE FICTION OF JACK LONDON: A Chronological Bibliography (Page XV)
London replied to charges of plagiarism by acknowledging his debt to Ab but insisting that primitive man was in the realm of the public domain.
Charmian London wrote that the novel "went into the universities of the United States as a text-book in Anthropology." (Book of Jack London, II, 121; Letters of Jack London, pp.
London transformed this tale into a playlet which he later included in the HD collection.
www.jacklondons.net /Fiction_of_jack_london/page15.html   (396 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Valley of the Moon (California Fiction): Books: Jack London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"London waslike Thomas Jeffersona rational humanist and a scientific progressivist; he was alsolike Jeffersonstrongly enamored of the pastoral dream, seeing in the return to the land the possibilities of spiritual as well as physical regeneration."
No matter the obstacle, and London lays them on with heavy-handed doses of pessimism, the lily-white hero and heroine, Billy and Saxon, easily overcome each while giving the author plenty of opportunity to express his famous prejudice against all non-Anglo Saxons.
London also builds his case for scientific farming, sustainability, as a method that will win out every time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520218205?v=glance   (1345 words)

  
 The World of Jack London: A Pictorial Biography
Jack London first became interested in poetry during the year he spent at Oakland High School and the one semester of his college education at the University of California.
London had little commercial success with his poetry but it represented a deep-rooted passion with him.
The book describes Bykov's visits to parts of the world where Jack London lived and wrote, the author's meetings with London's descendants and those who were acquainted with him, about new details of London's biography.
www.jacklondons.net   (917 words)

  
 Studies in Short Fiction: Jack London: A Definitive Chronology. - book reviews
Both authors are fully engaged in the ongoing task of establishing London's place in the annals of American culture.
While London's works are well known abroad where he is considered one of our greatest writers, within the United States his own life is usually regarded as his best adventure story.
Kingman shows us a London who is practical and hard-working, a man with a zest for fife and a determination to live each day to its fullest.
www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n4_v30/ai_14759395   (438 words)

  
 LONDON: FICTION BECOMES PREDICTION IN "DIRTY WAR" *PIC*
The congruences and similarities of the fiction of "Dirty War" and the events of July 7th in London are even more chilling than the context of the made-for-TV movie.
Parts of the most important commercial districts of London are left unusable because of the gamma radiation in the dirty bomb, and the value of houses in neighborhoods near the blast plummet rapidly in the immediate aftermath of the suicide attack.
Had the suicide bombers of real life been able to use radioactive contaminants, life in central London would have been disrupted for a generation to come, and thousands of real people would have been as grievously injured as were the thousands of fictional victims depicted in Daniel Percival's brilliant and disturbing 2004 television drama.
www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=74996   (1773 words)

  
 Fiction, London - Whats On in London
Discerning devotees of dance music are always hard at it on Friday nights at Fiction, run by the ever-popular creators of leading London club night DTPM.
The DTPM crew threw open their doors to a well-mixed gay/straight crowd on Friday nights in February 2000 and Fiction has become so popular that they very nearly outgrew their venue at The Cross.
Fiction is one of those rare clubs that lets the music do the talking, preferring to rely on their excellent resident DJs rather than so called big name stars.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats_on_38255.html   (210 words)

  
 Science fiction Archives | Samizdata.net
Yet, just as the new pulp genre of science fiction showed that the horizons of plausibility were widening, the Macguffins deployed by the creators of superheroes hinted that such transformations were not too far away for humanity itself.
I have met Stephenson on previous book tours, and in person he is exactly the classic introvert he says he is. Which means he is great to listen to at a reading, lecture, or Q&A session, but he is rather withdrawn if you try to talk to him one on one.
I generally exclude Rand as a science fiction writer only because she didn't know that Anthem and Atlas Shrugged are science fiction -- and that science fiction is the "literature of ideas" that she erroneously believed detective fiction to be.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/cat_science_fiction.html   (7808 words)

  
 Waitrose.com - London N8: Fiction - Waitrose Food Illustrated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
My friend Lisa is a bona fide vegetarian, but doesn't eat in vegetarian restaurants very often.
But Lisa, satisfied that Fiction's food is both stodge-free and fun, said she'd definitely be coming back for more.
Fiction, 60 Crouch End Hill, London N8 8AG.
www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/eatingout/london/0006028c.asp   (564 words)

  
 Fiction Hub at Dowse.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Here you will find an array of short stories from the classic to the contemporary, from writers who've shaped what the short story is today and those who are just starting to make their mark.
As a short story writer, I've learned that perhaps the best way to better your technique as a short fiction writer is to read everything the genre has to offer--from the old to the new, and everything in-between.
She was lying face down on the shingle of the beach, the tide sucking greedily at her thighs and legs, inviting her back in for another lethal swim.
www.dowse.com /fiction.html   (1017 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but shrewish fiancee.
Soon he finds himself living in a London most people would never have dreamed of— a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels.
When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0380789019-1   (479 words)

  
 Evening Standard (London): Better than fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
UNTIL author Zadie Smith set award-winning novel White Teeth in Cricklewood, northwest London, most Londoners knew it as a place to crawl through on the way to the M1.
The plan, promoted by the London Borough of Barnet and the Greater London Authority, rivals the regeneration of King's Cross.
The plan is to create a gateway to London with landmark tower blocks, new pedestrian links over the North Circular road, a riverside walk along the River Brent and a new railway station between Cricklewood and Hendon.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_200501/ai_n9562617   (444 words)

  
 Science Fiction London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Science Fiction London (SFL) is a group of science fiction enthusiasts living in and around London, Ontario, Canada.
We meet monthly in London to discuss science fiction.
To get the most out of the meetings, you should read the book that we will be discussing prior to the meeting, assuming that the topic is a book.
sfl.london.on.ca   (228 words)

  
 Fiction
International finance -- Fiction; Banks and banking -- Switzerland -- Fiction; Conspiracies -- Fiction; Switzerland -- Fiction.
Investment bankers -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Conspiracies -- Fiction; Finance -- Fiction; Richmond (Va.) -- Fiction.
Fiction; Consolidation and merger of corporations-England-London-Fiction; Taxicab drivers.
www.kipnotes.com /Fiction.htm   (1257 words)

  
 PaulTheroux.com {} Fiction {} London Snow
On a narrow London street the sweet-shop crackles with color.
Red-ribboned chocolate boxes are piled high, trays of glazed fruit and bins of glistening candies ring the Christmas tree.
And around the shop, over the whole of the city, drifts the greatest blizzard London has ever known.
www.paultheroux.com /fiction/london.snow.htm   (122 words)

  
 Exploring fiction - City University London
An introduction to each of the elements of fiction will be followed by discussion as well as in-class analysis of published work.
Distinctions will be made between elements of short fiction, novellas, and novels, and, in addition to recommended reading, you are encouraged to discuss your favourite works of fiction.
Weekly writing assignments will explore each element, and you will be asked to produce work in class, as well as to write outside of class for presentation.
www.city.ac.uk /ell/cfa/write/fiction/full_course_info_1_3224_3224.html   (475 words)

  
 BiblioTravel: London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A comedy set in London in the early 1990s.
A memoir of an impoverished childhood in London, extending to a successful literary career in Totonto...
I quite enjoyed this book, an adventure set in a magical London that is not quite like the one in our own world but has...
www.bibliotravel.com /locale.php?locale=10   (495 words)

  
 Sci-Fi London 3, The 3rd Annual London Science-Fiction and Fantasy Festival
With over thirty feature films showing across the three days (contrasting edginess with idealism) plus the events that are squeezed in between, you would need some sort of teleportation device to be able to see them all.
The festival highlights this year range from big budget techno-treasures from the far east such as 2009 Lost Memories, Takeshi Miike’s Full Metal Yakuza and the Philip.K.Dick inspired Natural City to the British premiere of the new Battlestar Galactica TV series pilot episode.
It may only be a small step for the evolution of science fiction but it’s a giant leap for the British film festival circuit; an independent, specialised event with a popular outlook that provides a quirky, fan-based antidote to some of the country’s more corpulent film festivals.
www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=65   (524 words)

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