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Peter Ackroyd
Follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. This book offers an exploration of the city, peering down its streets…
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This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world’s greatest writers. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose…
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Sister Clarice, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. This novel begins with The Nun’s Tale , and continues with the The Friar’s Tale…
The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd’s acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press’s portrait of himself…
An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd’s magisterial biography of the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and…
Originally published in Great Britain as Thames: sacred river by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2007, and subsequently published in hardcover in the U.S. by Nan A. Talese … New…
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Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London, in 2011 –T.p. verso.
Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity…
Just as Peter Ackroyd’s bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source.
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that…
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The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd’s magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of…
A wickedly satirical novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author.
A darkly playful novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author.
In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back…
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Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner’s office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often…
London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground…
The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd’s new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin’s life as well as his work, from his…
A massive bestseller in England, this title by one of Britain’s most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country in the first in…
First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title: The history of England; Tudors is volume 2 in that series.
The depth and scope of Ackroyd’s account is impressive, and it is as accessible as it is rich. –Publishers Weekly
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.
In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers…
Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s … History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends…
In this entertaining and informative volume, a renowned biographer and critic takes on his grandest subject: London–one of the world’s most vast and vital cities. in color. 2 maps.
Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and…
The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd’s History of England series.
The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this…
*** A Sunday Times Bestseller *** In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.
The third volume of Peter Ackroyd’s magisterial six-part History of England, taking readers from the accession of the first Stuart king, James I, to the overthrow of his grandson, James…
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five. He was the professor of mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, master of…
The man and the plays - without the boring bits - with commentary by Peter Ackroyd.
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Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his…
The story of Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster parents, is one of the most beloved heroines in all literature.
Rositsa Kronast
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Department fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar Fictional Literary Biographies…
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Baris Mete
This work evaluates the ontological status of the author-characters in John Fowles’s Mantissa and Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton within the scope of certain poststructuralist and postmodern theories; and it also attempts…
Petr Chalupsky
Peter Ackroyd’s writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London-its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through which all…
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Peter A. Ackroyd
Like the other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, this contains an introduction followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sections. Each section of the text…
Marta Komsta
The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets…
Peter R. Ackroyd
Dr Alex Murray
Undertakes a comparative analysis of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader cultural, social and political…
Geoffrey Chaucer
Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to…
Paul Schlicke
Imagined by one of the world’s foremost Dickens scholars, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of Britain’s most beloved novelist.
Henry Fielding
A black comedy of manners and morals, based on the career and crimes of a real-life 18th-century gangland criminal, ‘Jonathan Wild the Great’ is one of the finest satires in…