Background
ACKROYD, Peter was born on October 5, 1949. Son of Graham Ackroyd and Audrey Whiteside.
(Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 19...)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his promotion of Imagism, a movement that called for a return to more Classical values, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language, and had an interest in verse forms such as the Japanese Haiku. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917-69).[1] Working in London and Paris in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway. He was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses.
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(Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition P...)
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design. 'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on Sunday Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London. The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller / How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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(Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition P...)
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design. 'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on Sunday Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London. The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller / How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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( Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at ...)
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 "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues found in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. Chatterton is at once a hilariously witty comedy; a thoughtful and dramatic exploration of the deepest issues of authenticity in both life and art; and a subtle and touching story of failed lives, parental love, doomed marriages, and erotic passions.
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(In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keep...)
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
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(This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist a...)
This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past.
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(Dr. Ray exposes how little the public really knows about ...)
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. 5 cassettes.
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(Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folkl...)
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.
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(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Fire and Pestilence explores London's age-old ability to regenerate and reinvent itself, illustrated by human and physical phenomena including: disasters and plagues, political turmoil and riots, fires, and The Blitz.
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(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Districts and Suburbs focuses on the nature and character of various inner city districts, and the growth of the suburbs to form the huge urban sprawl we know as twenty-first century London.
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Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Foundations tells the story of London's formation and physical conception, it's early growth and character.
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(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Street Life and the People vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime, and punishment.
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(With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter A...)
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 imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
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Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Ackroyd, Peter [Anchor, 200...
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(From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s his...)
From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyd’s deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London.
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(Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as litera...)
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape–the industry, the animals, even the flowers–that would appear in Shakespeare’s plays. He takes us through Shakespeare’s London neighborhood and the fertile, competitive theater world where he worked as actor and writer. He shows us Shakespeare as a businessman, and as a constant reviser of his writing. In joining these intimate details with profound intuitions about the playwright and his work, Ackroyd has produced an altogether engaging masterpiece.
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(Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ack...)
Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.[1] Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel up to now and an impressive example of postmodernism.
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(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Walk with Ackroyd through sixteenth century London and Stratford as he uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare's life. Discover the theatrical world in which Shakespeare had his being, not just Shakespeare the actor but the other actors, playwrights, and managers that surrounded him. And journey to Stratford to meet Shakespeare the family man, whose private life had such an impact on his work that the strongest bond in his plays is always between father and daughter.
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(Spenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' "Little ...)
Spenser 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 interested in Dickens. Unwittingly he becomes the catalyst for bizarre meetings, coincidences and events, culminating in an apocalyptic conflagration.
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(Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub the Date: November 2007 P...)
Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub the Date: November 2007 Pages: 180 in Publisher by: Audiobooks of Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here. as a culmination. is his definitive account of the city. It has been aidged for audio into five oad areas of interest and is also available as a box set. For Ackroyd London is a living organism. with its own laws of growth and change. thus London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories. too . in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century. noting magnificence in both epochs. but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account. animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he descri...
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(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Walk with Ackroyd through sixteenth century London and Stratford as he uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare's life. Discover the theatrical world in which Shakespeare had his being, not just Shakespeare the actor but the other actors, playwrights, and managers that surrounded him. And journey to Stratford to meet Shakespeare the family man, whose private life had such an impact on his work that the strongest bond in his plays is always between father and daughter.
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(Roman distins cu GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE si WHITBREAD NOVE...)
Roman distins cu GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE si WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD. Nu exista lumina fara intuneric si nici materie fara umbra. Aceasta este deviza arhitectului Nicholas Dyer, asistentul lui Sir Christopher Wren si omul imputernicit sa construiasca in Londra sapte biserici care sa se constituie in tot atatea jaloane ale Iluminismului. Numai ca Dyer planuieste sa ascunda cate un secret intunecat in fiecare dintre aceste biserici, concepand niste edificii datatoare de fiori, dar menite sa reziste vesniciei. Dupa doua sute cincizeci de ani, detectivul londonez Nicholas Hawksmoor cerceteaza o serie de crime sinistre, savarsite in imediata vecinatate a catorva biserici de secol optsprezece, crime care nu pot fi intelese de mintea omului modern.
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(One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental myst...)
One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed of 299.792.458 m/s. It is a medium like no other, and nothing has revolutionized and democratized our world in the way that the control of electric light has.
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(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Trade and Enterprise explores London as a center for international trade, finance, and culture. Integral topics covered include the river, banking, science, and architecture.
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(Only David Eddleman could masterfully combine and arrange...)
Only David Eddleman could masterfully combine and arrange two to the most frequently performed holiday tunes: Carol of the Bells and What Child is This? into a delightful, playful and accessible arrangement. No holiday concert is complete without it! - Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Piano - Carl Fischer - 798408094072 - 825894077 - 1/15/2014 - 12 Pages.
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(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Walk with Ackroyd through sixteenth century London and Stratford as he uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare's life. Discover the theatrical world in which Shakespeare had his being, not just Shakespeare the actor but the other actors, playwrights, and managers that surrounded him. And journey to Stratford to meet Shakespeare the family man, whose private life had such an impact on his work that the strongest bond in his plays is always between father and daughter.
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(John Milton foi um homem de ideias controversas que viveu...)
John Milton foi um homem de ideias controversas que viveu em um tempo conturbado. Engajado e famoso por seus ideais republicanos a epoca da restauracao do trono ingles a Carlos II, foi preso e ameacado de morte. Na vida real, Milton transformou seu tormento em poesia, mas Peter Ackroyd imaginou uma outra historia para o poeta. E se ele tivesse abandonado Londres e partido para a Nova Inglaterra em busca de seus ideais? Desembarcando na America, Milton comeca a ver seu sonho se concretizar, mas suas ideias inicialmente liberais acabam por ser corrompidas e se tornam tao repressoras quanto as que deixara do outro lado do oceano.
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(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Walk with Ackroyd through sixteenth century London and Stratford as he uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare's life. Discover the theatrical world in which Shakespeare had his being, not just Shakespeare the actor but the other actors, playwrights, and managers that surrounded him. And journey to Stratford to meet Shakespeare the family man, whose private life had such an impact on his work that the strongest bond in his plays is always between father and daughter.
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(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. Walk with Ackroyd through sixteenth century London and Stratford as he uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare's life. Discover the theatrical world in which Shakespeare had his being, not just Shakespeare the actor but the other actors, playwrights, and managers that surrounded him. And journey to Stratford to meet Shakespeare the family man, whose private life had such an impact on his work that the strongest bond in his plays is always between father and daughter.
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(Nicholas Hawksmoors Bauten dürfen als Höhepunkte der Baro...)
Nicholas Hawksmoors Bauten dürfen als Höhepunkte der Barockarchitektur bezeichnet werden. Die sechs nach 1711 in London errichteten Pfarrkirchen bilden sein Hauptwerk. Deren vielschichtige, spannungsreiche, bewusst anti-organische und anti-dogmatische Architektur wird in ihren Charakteristika und theoretischen Grundlagen vorgestellt. Dabei ergeben sich Verbindungen nicht nur zu den "modernes" der französischen Akademie und Claude Perraults relativistischer Architekturtheorie. Thomas Hobbes' Wirkungsästhetik und Joseph Addisons assoziationsästhetische Ansätze werden ebenso spürbar wie der "scientific spirit" der Royal Society. Erkenntlich werden die Bauten als Propaganda für die bestehende Ordnung, für Staatskirche und Monarchie; und ihre Gestaltung als Reflexion der Anschauungen der von Hof und Kirche, Naturwissenschaft und Freimaurerei gleichermaßen getragenen, von Sir Isaac Newton geprägten "newtonian philosophy".
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(1770 yilinda henuz 18 yasindayken kendini olduren esraren...)
1770 yilinda henuz 18 yasindayken kendini olduren esrarengiz Ingiliz sairi Thomas Chatterton. Chatterton'in gercekliginin ardina dusen bir baska genc Ingiliz sairi Charles Wychwoods. Wychwoods'un bir antikaciya satmak icin getirdigi kitaplarla, gozune ilisen yagliboya portreyi takas etmesiyle baslayan uc farkli yuzyilda gecen olaylar... Edebiyat odulu rekortmeni bir romanci, elestirmen, yayinci ve arastirmaci olan Peter Ackroyd'dan cok farkli yonlere ulasabilen dokundurmalariyla keskin bir mizah usturasi. Dahiyane tiplemeleriyle bir toplumsal kimlik cozumlemesinin romani.
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(In this updated and expanded third edition, seismic engin...)
In this updated and expanded third edition, seismic engineer Peter Yanev and risk management consultant Andrew Thompson explain how to prepare one's property to withstand a powerful quake, and how to protect one's family during and after the chaos. Residents of earthquake country learn why and how earthquakes occur, which construction methods are best suited for fault zones, and how to shore up existing buildings to survive the next big one. This comprehensive resource deconstructs complicated insurance policies, maps existing and suspected faults, and demystifies terms like "liquifaction" and "cripple walls."
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((8 Audio Cassettes) In this remarkable detective novel Pe...)
(8 Audio Cassettes) In this remarkable detective novel Peter Ackroyd investigates the death of Thomas Chatterton, the 18th century poet forger and genius, who died at the tender age of 18 under extremely strange circumstances. Fusing themes of illusion and imagination, delusion and dreams, the author weaves strands from three centuries. The cast is a motley crew of Dickensian eccentrics and rogues, from the outrageous, gin sipping Harriet Scrope to the tragic Charles Wychwood, on a personal quest for Chatterton's deepest secrets. Ackroyd tantalizingly explores the themes of reality and illusion, truth and falsity, mortality and immortality, and the curious and inexplicable ways in which past, present, and future are entwined. With his customary wit and attention to historical detail, Peter Ackroyd blends truth and fiction into a tantalizing clever whodunit, an ingenious twist on the tale of English literature's greatest prodigy and most notorious "suicide".
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(A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War ...)
A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War I London into the evocative world of his imagination, where a discovery of his heritage offers him the key to understanding his own past. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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ACKROYD, Peter was born on October 5, 1949. Son of Graham Ackroyd and Audrey Whiteside.
St. Benedict’s School, Ealing, Clare College, Cambridge and Yale University.
Literature editor Spectator magazine, London, 1973-1977, managing editor, 1977-1981. Freelance writer, since 1981. Chief book reviewer The Times, London, since 1986.
(In this updated and expanded third edition, seismic engin...)
(Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as litera...)
((8 Audio Cassettes) In this remarkable detective novel Pe...)
( Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at ...)
(From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s his...)
(Only David Eddleman could masterfully combine and arrange...)
(A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War ...)
(With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter A...)
(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
(Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to th...)
(In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keep...)
(Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folkl...)
(One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental myst...)
(Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 19...)
(Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition P...)
(Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor - part of the limited edition P...)
(Spenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' "Little ...)
(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
(Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakes...)
(1770 yilinda henuz 18 yasindayken kendini olduren esraren...)
(Nicholas Hawksmoors Bauten dürfen als Höhepunkte der Baro...)
(A retrospective collection of Peter Ackroyd's best poetry...)
(John Milton foi um homem de ideias controversas que viveu...)
(This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist a...)
(Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Ackroyd...)
(Peter Ackroyd's biography gives new insights into Eliot's...)
(Roman distins cu GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE si WHITBREAD NOVE...)
(Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ack...)
(The mostconvincing bioofvery accomplished and complicated...)
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Author: (poems) London Lickpenny, 1973, Country Life, 1978, The Diversions of Purley, 1987, (book) Notes for a New Culture, 1976, Dressing Up, 1979, Ezra Pound and His World, 1980, The Great Fire of London, 1982, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, 1983, T. S. Eliot, 1984, Hawksmoor, 1985, Chatterton, 1987, First Light, 1989, Dickens, 1990, English Music, 1992, The House of Doctor Dee, 1993, Dan Leno and the Limhouse Golem, 1994, Blake, 1995, Milton in America, 1996, The Life of Thomas More, 1998, The Plato Papers, 1999, London: The Biography, 2000, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, 2002, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, Shakespeare: The Biography, 2005.
Fellow: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Royal Society Literature. Member: American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary. Foreign member 2006).