Adrian Tinniswood

By Permission Of Heaven (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of the Great Fire of London

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours on 2 September, a small fire broke out on the ground floor of a baker's house in Pudding Lane. In five days that small fire would devastate the third largest city in the Western world.

Adrian Tinniswood's magnificent new account of the Great Fire of London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences. It pieces together the untold human story of the Fire and its aftermath - the panic, the search for scapegoats, and the rebirth of a city. Above all, it provides an unsurpassable recreation of what happened to schoolchildren and servants, courtiers and clergyman when the streets of London ran with fire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446402719
• Artikelnr.: 39269803

Autorenporträt

Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

By Permission of HeavenList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Maps
1. The Court of Vulcan
2. The Future Condition of the English Nation
3. God's Bellows
4. A Universal Conclusion
5. Black Towers Mourn
6. And After Three Days' Toil
7. Mighty Merry and Our Fears Over
8. Dreams of Fire Falling
9. Digitus Dei
10. Yes Sir, I am Guilty of It
11. A More Glorious Phoenix
12. Grief Cramps My Heart
13. Consider the Common Calamity
14. Malicious Hearts
Notes
Chronology
Dramatis Person?
Bibliography
Index