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Find out what Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Wilde, Cobbett, Betjeman, Branagh, Graham Greene, and many others had to say about Reading.

This new edition of a popular book presents an even wider spectrum of opinions of the town from the 12th to the 21st centuries.


‘a dynamic urban city’
‘a gloomy town with nightmarish traffic problems’
‘a vigorous town, distinguished for an energetic individuality’
‘plenty of delights to satisfy an unprejudiced eye’
‘the whiff of boredom, wretchedness and despair’
‘an intelligent and unpretentious town to live in’
‘not wholly Golgotha’
‘a stupendous octopus’

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