A longtime fan of English literature, Anna Quindlen had formed her impressions of London from reading Dickens, Woolf, Galsworthy, and Sherlock Holmes. Finally traveling there in her 40s, Quindlen is intrigued by the similarities to the London of her imagination, and even more by the differences: Dickens's debtors' prison, for example, is now the Tate Modern. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.