Dimensions
155 x 236 x 46mm
A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met.
Before the age of the gas lamp, the city at night was a different place, home to the lost, the vagrant and the insomniac. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the dark perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers from Shakespeare, to the ecstatic strolls of William Blake, the feverish urges of opium addict De Quincey, as well as the master night walker, Charles Dickens.
