From Neolithic times to the dawn of the Tudor age, Peter Ackroyd's enthralling journey through England's history begins.In Foundation, acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd turns his a...
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Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a...
From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the "modern" era mig...
Filled with stunning photographs, illustrations, and maps, an enthralling tour of London, from the time of the Druids to the present, delves into the human dramas that have mold...
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9780385497732
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti nidottu
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English ima...
Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping sho...
Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9780701182953
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti sidottu
The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is over-turnin...
Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city...
Colors of London: A History
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9780711281523
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti sidottu
Celebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the cit...
No city shaped the modern world quite like London – a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar...
What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed...
The scene is London, in 1399. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has bee...
Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9780749396596
Julkaistu 1995 Kieli englanti pokkari
Peter Ackroyd brings Victorian London to life in all its guts and glory, as we travel from the glamour of the music hall to the slums of the East End, meeting George Gissing and...
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "m...
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9781250054609
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series. Tudors is the st...
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9781250070241
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, be...
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9781250812162
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti nidottu
"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." --Kirkus, starred review Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glo...
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
Peter Ackroyd · ISBN 9781250861139
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti nidottu
Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the...