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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2001)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- London: the Biography
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 1148g
- Number of Pages
- 848 Pages
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A masterpiece- London- A Biography is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original. 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. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so 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. 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 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.'
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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780099422587
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
London: the Biography
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
848 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
1148g
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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- n**** (219)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat communication, prompt delivery and item carefully packed and as described. Thanks for a smooth eBay experience! A+++An Alphabet For Gourmets M.F.K Fisher - The Folio Society 2005 (#235861365653)
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