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The Walker
by Matthew Beaumont
Walking the city in literature: Dickens, Poe, Woolf, Ray Bradbury, the nightwalker and the flâneur. A critical study with pleasure in it.
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you want walking as a literary and political act.
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Three things you will actually use
- Walking is thinking.
- Cities are read on foot.
- The night walker sees differently.
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Read the chapter on Dickens's night walks.
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