The Great Wen, as London has disparagingly been called in times past, is a city of contradictions: big and beautiful, but overpopulated and odoriferous.
It is also arguably the world’s most literary, if not literate, of cities — and a dream for bookish tourists wanting to visit the former homes and haunts of writers, and the countless locations mentioned in their books.
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