The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.
-John Updike, On London, in “A Madman”, "New Yorker", December 22, 1962
Books about City Life, Cities
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