London: The Biography

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Ackroyd covers unrest and peace, fires and ruins, river and rail transport, crime and punishment, wealth and poverty, markets and churches, uncontrolled growth and barely controlled filth. It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our capital is the book about London. The unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition with nibbling to the top and bottom edges of the spine and the top edge of the back cover.

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At once awed by and intimate with this "ubiquitous" city, he stresses that "it can be located nowhere in particular. Novelist and biographer Ackroyd (The Canterbury Tales) provides a history of and meditation on the actual and imaginary Venice in a volume as opulent and paradoxical as the city itself. There is a slight amount of sun damage to the top edge of the front board and nibbling to the the top and bottom edges of the spine. Forecast: Published to acclaim in England, this is virtually guaranteed major review coverage here, and the publisher will also shoot for national media.It is also the first in a sequence of novels of London, through which he traces the changing, but curiously consistent nature of the city. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Ackroyd has always shown a great interest in the city of London, and one of his best known works, London: The Biography, is an extensive and thorough discussion of London through the ages. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history.

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From 2003 to 2005, Ackroyd wrote a six-book non-fiction series ( Voyages Through Time), intended for readers as young as eight.The opium quarter of Limehouse," he tells readers, for example, "is now represented by a Chinese take-away. 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. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

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We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. His fascination with London literary and artistic figures is also displayed in the sequence of biographies he has produced of Ezra Pound (1980), T.The Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. The result of this fellowship was Ackroyd's Notes for a New Culture, written when he was only 22 and eventually published in 1976. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre and war.