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12 London in the Arts

12.1 Literature featuring London

London has been the setting for many works of literature. The two writers who are perhaps most closely associated with the city are the diarist Samuel Pepys, famous among other things for his eye-witness account of the Great Fire, and Charles Dickens, whose representation of a foggy, snowy, grimy London of street-sweepers and pickpockets is a major influence on people's vision of early Victorian London.

Other famous works that feature London include A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. See London in fiction for the main article.

12.2 Films featuring London

London has been the backdrop for many films. Genres of note include Ealing comedy, gangster films and the romantic comedies of Richard Curtis. Many films have also been made based on books set in London, such as those of Charles Dickens and the Sherlock Holmes novels. See the article London in film for further details.

London is also home to a world-class post-production and special effects industry.

12.3 TV shows featuring London

• Eastenders
• Only Fools and Horses
• Men Behaving Badly
• Spooks
• Ultraviolet

300px Tower Bridge

13 See also

• Hidden London
• List of churches and cathedrals of London
• List of heads of London government
• List of places in London, England
• London in fiction
• London markets
• London postal districts
• Mayor of London
• Subterranean London
• Subterranean rivers of London
• Tall buildings in London
• University of London
• Photographs of London

14 External links

* Travel guide to from Wikitravel

• The Open Guide to London is a project to document all of London in a wiki.
• London Guide London Guide on Englandguide.co.uk
• First chapter of the book "London: The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd
• Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority official web site for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. www.london.gov.uk
• London at NASA's Earth Observatory
• An Explanation of the Name of London (PostScript file)
• London from Evening Standard
• London Restaurants Guide.
• London Bars and Pubs Guide.
• London Directory
• more London Directories
• Transport for London Site
• London Underground The Tube
• Hotels in London
• London Hotels 2PL Network
• The Londinium directory of London

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