London has been called the most exciting place on earth—lively, cosmopolitan, historic, a cultural treasure house. As Samuel Johnson famously observed, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." London Revealed is a celebration of this great capital, a pictorial and literary feast for anyone who knows the city or loves it. Beautifully illustrated with magnificent views, the book offers an array of legendary authors including Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf as well as modern contemporaries like Zadie Smith, Nick Hornby and Jeanette Winterson. It also includes the insights and observations of many others—journalists, historians, politicians, artists, architects and celebrities. A tribute and a compendium of London-inspired articles, essays, stories and profiles, London Revealed is the quintessential book on this great British metropolis.