London the biography by peter ackroyds novels
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London: The Biography
"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."
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but this new work is his definitive account of the city. For Ackroyd, London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, thus the subtitle "A Biography (as opposed to "A History). The book differs too, from histories, 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. There are 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.
"London is fully comprehensive, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close
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Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London
Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book
It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is the book about London
You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted
[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city.
In this outstanding biography of the capital Peter Ackroyd brings the streets alive with tales young and old.
The definitive history of London... a must read for anyone interested in the subject.
It's this decade's finest work of non-fiction.
A fantastically detailed book
About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction
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