Ghosts of Piccadilly, The by STREET, G. S.
by LibriVox
January 1, 1970 10:00 am
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England) … and of some of the buildings, now long gone.
“If any part of any city deserves a book to itself, it is Piccadilly. We shall stand before some house in the hours when the traffic is stilled, and I shall tell of its history, of the men and women who dwelt there, and talked and loved and gambled and lived and died. I shall follow the lines of my temperament and tastes rather than those of completeness and impartiality: it is likely that I shall be voluble about Byron and reticent about Macaulay.”
(From the preface)
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Preface; Chapter One - A General View
55 years agoChapter Two - Contrasted Fates: Clarendon House and Devonshire House
55 years agoChapter Three - Another Contrast of Neighbours: 81 and 82
55 years agoChapter Four - Old Q.
55 years agoChapter Five - The Ghosts of Albany
55 years agoChaper Six - Byron
55 years agoChapter Seven - Of Burlington House
55 years agoChapter Eight - The Palmerstons and Cambridge House
55 years agoChapter Nine - 105, 106, and 107
55 years agoChapter Ten - The Great Duke
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