Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009
London: A Pilgrim's Progress
By Neal Ascherson
The Road Home
by Rose Tremain
Little, Brown/Back Bay, 417 pp., $24.99; $14.99 (paper)
When Alexander Herzen came to London in 1852, an exiled stranger in the richest city on earth, he found its indifference reassuring. The place was dreary, unhealthy, monstrously unjust but also unchanging:
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