Peter Ackroyd
The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein
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It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks. ... More »
Poe: A Life Cut Short
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Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor o... More »
The Fall Of Troy
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I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the inv... More »
The Lambs Of London
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At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too many while spreading hi... More »
Newton: Brief Lives
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote... More »
Newton: Brief Lives
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universitie... More »
Chaucer: Brief Lives
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Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, enjoyed an eventful life. His Troilus and Cressida is the first example of Modern English literature, and his masterpiece, Canterbury Tales,the forerunner of the English novel, dominat... More »
Cities Of Blood: Voyages Through Time
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Kingdom Of The Dead: Voyages Through Time
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Escape From Earth
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The astonishing story of mankind's desire to break free from the Earth. Follow dramatic, political power struggles, German scientists switching allegiance and what happened to early rockets transporting fruit flies into ... More »
Shakespeare: The Biography
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Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - m... More »