Harry Mount

Hobbling the sacred cows

issue 11 October 2003

  • London Perceived

    V. S. Pritchett, photographs by Evelyn Hofer

    Penguin, pp. 216

Here’s a real cure for anyone with a bad case of things-are-getting-worse-itis. Written in 1962 principally for the American market, London Perceived has now been republished over here for the first time in 40 years, which seems staggering. I’ve never read a better summary of London or Londoners.

And it has hardly dated at all.

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