From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Prologue : Concerning scandal, murder, smuggling, highwaymen, coffee, & C. --
In which we make the perilous and eventful journey to the George Inn, Southwark. From my house --
Concerning dates, names, Mutya, Heidi & C. --
Being some remarks on London's first bridge, and how this bridge gives our story its very shape --
On inns, taverns, alehouses, pubs and boozers. But mainly inns, and the distinctive nature thereof --
The poet's tale, or, how English literature was born in a Southwark inn --
In which we meet the inhabitants of sinful Southwark, and the patrons of its divers inns, taverns and alehouses --
Concerning bulls, bears, actors and other beasts, and their various 'entertainments', including the sad tale of a monkey on a horse --
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) --
Our inn enjoys a golden age of romance, highwaymen, complicated timetables and sore posteriors --
Concerning drink, hops and politics, and how the George Inn brings these elements together --
In which the road of steel replaces the roads of the Romans, and the inns of the Borough suffer a terrible fate --
Concerning a mother and daughter, two brothers, and the condition of nostalgia --
In which the George Inn is sav'd for the nation, and a princess and a bishop have a lock-in --
Epilogue : a drink at the George Inn to-day --
Timeline and dramatis personae.
