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London: The Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385497718)
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xA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London's history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar's and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN-10: 0385497717
ISBN-13: 9780385497718
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2003
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.18w x 1.65d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/13/2003 pg. 28
Here are two thousand years of London's history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar's and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN-10: 0385497717
ISBN-13: 9780385497718
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2003
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.18w x 1.65d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/13/2003 pg. 28
By Peter Ackroyd
xPETER ACKROYD is also the author of London Under, Shakespeare: The Biography, Thames: The Biography, and Venice: Pure City; acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Sir Thomas More; and several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, among others.
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