Paul Binding
Cabbies and Caves
The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London
By Natsume Soseki (Translated from the Japanese and introduced by Damian Flanagan)
Peter Owen 240pp £14.95 order from our bookshop
Those who have been captivated by the Mitchell & Kenyon films of British urban life in the early twentieth century, and who feel that, through them, they have moved among their forebears for the first time ever and seen them as ordinary, independent people, will surely react similarly to the essays and vignettes collected in The Tower of London. The camera here is a Japanese teacher and scholar of English literature who, aged thirty-three and by courtesy of his own government, arrived in London in October 1900 and stayed there, quartered in various mostly dismal lodging houses, till December 1902.
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