Riparian

Douglas Johnson

  • The Left Bank: Writers in Paris, from Popular Front to Cold War by Herbert Lottman
    Heinemann, 319 pp, £12.50, May 1982, ISBN 0 434 42943 0

When Sherlock Holmes was seeking to elucidate the mystery of the Six Napoleons, he went on a ten-mile drive from Kensington to Stepney, and Dr Watson records that ‘in rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London and, finally, maritime London.’ One may be puzzled at this description and one might have wished that the good Doctor had been more precise in his definitions and delineations. Is it possible to note so exactly these different areas of London?

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