I do know how to spell ttnwy twty twenty!

I don't know the book, but from the B&N description,
A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets, full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars.
Looks like it would be a good partner-individual stories of residents of 1930s London...although it seems like it would be darker-but then I read the Canterbury Tales many many years ago-and not all of them-just the ones chosen by my lit. prof.

Many thanks - I was also hoping to nudge up the discussion of 'Twenty Thousand Streets' posted here some time ago - which I missed out on. So if anyone can tell me how to get it....