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1. London: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
In an utterly original, endlessly engaging portrait of London, renowned biographer Peter Ackroyd peels back layers of history to reveal a living, ... More
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2. Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as ... More
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3. Dickens
by Peter Ackroyd
Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are ... More
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4. Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
by Peter Ackroyd
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 ... More
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5. Venice: Pure City
by Peter Ackroyd
The incomparable Ackroyd is at his most magical and magisterial in this glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ... More
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6. Thames: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of ... More
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7. The Clerkenwell Tales
by Peter Ackroyd
From a master historian comes a brilliantly original historical novel set in late-14th century London. Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St. ... More
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8. First Light
by Peter Ackroyd
Written by the author of "Hawksmoor", winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and "Chatterton", this is a pastoral novel of the late 20th century ... More
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9. Blake
by Peter Ackroyd
He was a child who saw angels, a painter whose works were as neglected in his lifetime as they are celebrated today. In this innovative biography of ... More
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10. The Fall of Troy
by Peter Ackroyd
Like the Homeric epics that entrance archaeologist Heinrich Obermann, "The Fall of Troy" is in part accurate, in part fantastic. It is a brilliantly ... More
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11. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
When two 19th-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the ... More
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12. The Life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd
Thomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of ... More
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13. T.S.Eliot
by Peter Ackroyd
List of all editions'THIS BRILLIANT ACCOUNT OF ELIOT'S LIFE TURNS A WEALTH OF DETAILED RESEARCH INTO A FLUENT NARRATIVE THAT IS CONSISTENTLY ENGROSSING AND CONTAINS ... More
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14. Chatterton
by Peter Ackroyd
What is the mystery of Thomas Chatterton? A young poet and elderly female novelist try to decode the clues found within an eighteenth-century ... More
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15. Shakespeare: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has ... More
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16. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd
This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from ... More
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17. English Music
by Peter Ackroyd
With alternating chapters set in the late 1920s and in a dream world involving Byrd, Constable and Carroll, the novel charts the development of a ... More
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18. Newton
by Peter Ackroyd
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in ... More
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19. The Plato Papers
by Peter Ackroyd
On ritual occasions, Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the ... More
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20. Poe: A Life Cut Short
by Peter Ackroyd
In this essential addition to his canon of acclaimed biographies, Ackroyd explores Edgar Allan Poe's literary accomplishments and legacy against the ... More
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21. Chaucer
by Peter Ackroyd
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self ... More
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22. The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
by Peter Ackroyd
1880: In London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, a series of brutal murders has occurred. Ackroyd allows readers to attend the trial of ... More
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23. The Plato Papers: A Prophesy
by Peter Ackroyd
At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of ... More
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24. The Great Fire of London
by Peter Ackroyd
List of all editionsSpenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' "Little Dorrit" using a contemporary London prison as a set. But he is not the only person ... More
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25. Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
by Peter Ackroyd
Bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet ... More
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