| Prologue: Concerning Scandal, Murder, Smuggling, Highwaymen, Coffee, &C. |
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Chapter One In Which We Make the Perilous and Eventful Journey to the George Inn, Southwark. From my House |
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Chapter Two Concerning Dates, Names, Mutya, Heidi &C. |
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Chapter Three Being Some Remarks on London's First Bridge, and How This Bridge Gives Our Story its Very Shape |
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Chapter Four On Inns, Taverns, Alehouses, Pubs and Boozers. But Mainly Inns, and the Distinctive Nature Thereof |
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Chapter Five The Poet's Tale, or, How English Literature was Born in a Southwark Inn |
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Chapter Six In Which We Meet the Inhabitants of Sinful Southwark, and the Patrons of its Divers Inns, Taverns and Alehouses |
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Chapter Seven Concerning Bulls, Bears, Actors and Other Beasts, and their Various `Entertainments', including the Sad Tale of a Monkey on a Horse |
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141 | (22) |
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Chapter Eight Further Unsavoury Activities in Inns and Alehouses, and How These Places Were Burn'd by Almighty God's Fury (if You Believe in That Sort of Thing) |
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Chapter Nine Our Inn Enjoys a Golden Age of Romance, Highwaymen, Complicated Timetables and Sore Posteriors |
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Chapter Ten Concerning Drink, Hops and Politics, and How the George Inn Brings These Elements Together |
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211 | (18) |
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Chapter Eleven In Which the Road of Steel Replaces the Roads of the Romans, and the Inns of The Borough Suffer a Terrible Fate |
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Chapter Twelve Concerning a Mother and Daughter, Two Brothers, and the Condition of Nostalgia |
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255 | (34) |
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Chapter Thirteen In Which, the George Inn is Sav'd for the Nation, and a Princess and a Bishop Have a Lock-In |
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289 | (30) |
| Epilogue: A Drink at the George Inn To-Day |
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319 | (16) |
| Timeline and Dramatis Personae |
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335 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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343 | (6) |
| Acknowledgements |
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349 | (2) |
| Picture and Text Acknowledgements |
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