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London

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2003-04-08

London written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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.

The Collection

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House UK
Release Date : 2001

The Collection written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Random House UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Journalism, reviews, essays, short stories, lectures from the chief book reviewer for the Times.

Hawksmoor

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Release Date : 2013

Hawksmoor written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Hamish Hamilton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architects categories.

'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 . . . Cover art by: Barn'whether the book addresses graffiti explicitly, evoke a city from the past, or are considered cult classics, the novels all share the quality - like street art - of speaking to their time.' Guardian Gallery

The English Ghost

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011

The English Ghost written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.

Blake

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date :

Blake written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Painting, English categories.

Shakespeare

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-21

Shakespeare written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 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.

London Under

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011

London Under written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.

London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Tube stations.

Queer City

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2022-03-31

Queer City written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with History categories.

A history of the development of London as a European epicenter of queer life. In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way–through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ("wolf dens" or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks, and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music, and the horror of AIDS. Ackroyd reveals the hidden story of London, with its diversity, thrills, and energy, as well as its terrors, dangers, and risks, and in doing so, explains the origins of all English-speaking gay culture. Praise for Queer City "Spanning centuries, the book is a fantastically researched project that is obviously close to the author's heart.... An exciting look at London's queer history and a tribute to the "various human worlds maintained in [the city's] diversity despite persecution, condemnation, and affliction.""— Kirkus Reviews "[Ackroyd's] work is highly anecdotal and near encyclopedic . . . the book is fascinating in its careful exposition of the singularities—and commonalities—of gay life, both male and female. Ultimately it is, as he concludes, a celebration as well as a history," — Booklist "A witty history-cum-tribute to gay London, from the Roman "wolf dens" through Oscar Wilde and Gay Pride marches to the present day," — ShelfAwareness

The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date : 1995

The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by Nan A. Talese this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.

A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time." -- The Sunday Times (London) The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree is without a doubt Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the erudition and literary brilliance we expect of Ackroyd, yet it is as vivid, scary, and spellbinding as the best of Edgar Allan Poe. The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the English music halls, smell the smells of London slums, hear the hooves of horses on the cobblestone streets, and attend the trial of Elizabeth Cree, a woman accused of poisoning her husband but who may be the one person who knows the truth about the murders. The wonderfully rhythmic shifting of focus from trial to back alleys, where we come upon George Gissing, author of New Grub Street, and even Karl Marx, gives the story a tremendous depth and resonance beyond its page-turning thriller plot. In The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree, Peter Ackroyd has once again confirmed his place as one of the great writers of our time.

Dickens

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Author : Peter Ackroyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Dickens written by Peter Ackroyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.