London - The Biography (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

London - The Concise Biography (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of

London - The Biography (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. 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

Thames: Sacred River (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to

Queer City - Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Shakespeare - The Biography (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare

Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

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 Karl Marx along the

Charlie Chaplin (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it?Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy

London Under (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground

Clerkenwell Tales (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

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 been vouchsafed visions of the future. As one critic has put it, 'he is our age's greatest London

London: A Traveller's Reader (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The rich and glorious past of one of the great cities of the world is brought vividly to life for today's reader in this collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of visitors to London and of Londoners

Venice (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and

Tudors - The History of England Volume II (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England:

A Horror and a Beauty - The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels - Petr Chalupský

Peter Ackroyd je jedním z předních současných britských „londýnských“ spisovatelů, který se zaměřuje na tuto metropoli, jeho historii, vývoj a identitu jak ve svých prózách, tak literatuře faktu.Jeho románový Londýn je silně idiosynkratický konstrukt, který vychází z

Dominion - A History of England Volume V (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of

A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels - Petr Chalupský - e-kniha

eBook: Peter Ackroyd je jedním z předních současných britských „londýnských“ spisovatelů, který se zaměřuje na tuto metropoli, jeho historii, vývoj a identitu jak ve svých prózách, tak literatuře faktu. Jeho románový Londýn je silně idiosynkratický konstrukt, který

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback)

Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions

Foundation - The History of England Volume I (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The first volume in Peter Ackroyd's stunning six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry

Dickens - Abridged (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern

Wilkie Collins (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone - often called the first true detective novel - and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known

Chaucer - Brief Lives (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. He knew at first hand the most powerful people in the country and, as the king's servant; Yet even in this crowded life he found time and opportunity to write some of the finest poems in the

Hawksmoor (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren 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

Alfred Hitchcock (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century?As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others

Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Chaucer Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century

Peter Barnes Authorised Biography (James Gary)(Paperback / softback)