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Peter Ackroyd
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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The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd’s History of England series.
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd’s acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone - often called the first true detective novel - and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of…
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…
Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city. He dwells particulary on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300)…
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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…
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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…
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 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.
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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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.
Ackroyd is a longtime chronicler of London. In this book, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way–through the history and experiences of its gay population. He takes…
*** 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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and…
The man and the plays - without the boring bits - with commentary by Peter Ackroyd.
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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…
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 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…
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.
When two 19th-century Oxford students–Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley–form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from…
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…
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.
A new biography from Peter Ackroyd, who, after charting the lives of iconic literary and historical figures-Shakespeare, Dickens, Newton-now turns his attention to the intriguing and unjustly overlooked figure of…
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd’s magnificent History of England series, from the Boer War to the Millenium Dome.
Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a…
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath…
Dr. Ray exposes how little the public really knows about the environment–and how environmentalism often moves from well-meaning idealism to counterproductive eco-terrorism.
This is Ackroyd’s retelling of a 19th century drama which keeps the reader guessing right to the end.