A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White

A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century

Jerry White

682 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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London in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of r...

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