Brief Lives 3 - Newton, Ackroyd Peter

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Newton
ISBN: 0385507992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385507998
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Turner: Brief Lives 2
ISBN: 0099287285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287285
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Описание: James Mallord William Turner entered the Royal Academy at 14 and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and watercolours, and the country houses, cathedrals and landscape of England. He was mean with money, never married, and spent a lot of his life living in taverns. His dying words were: `The Sun is God.`

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Clerkenwell tales
ISBN: 0749386304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749386306
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Описание: Sister Clarice, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. This novel begins with "The Nun`s Tale", and continues with the "The Friar`s Tale", "The Merchant`s Tale" and "The Clerk`s Tale", building a portrait of medieval London, where people are disenchanted by the Church.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: London
ISBN: 0099422581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099422587
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Описание: 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 history of drink.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Shakespeare
ISBN: 074938655X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749386559
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Описание: Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Dickens
ISBN: 0099437090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099437093
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Описание: First published in 1990, this shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world`s greatest writers.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames
ISBN: 0385526237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385526234
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, The
ISBN: 0701183500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701183509
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1360 р.
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 0099422557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099422556
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Описание: Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: The House of Doctor Dee
ISBN: 0140171177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140171174
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 831 р.
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Описание: This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Fall Of Troy, The
ISBN: 009949275X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099492757
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Цена: 1979 р.
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Описание: Sophia Chrysanthis is 16 when the archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is removing the earth methodically. Sophia finds herself baffled by the past. She is baffled by his past also which he has chosen to hide from her. But she is good at the art of archaeology.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 0701172843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701172848
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Описание: Covers the history of the river of Thames. This book enables the reader to learn about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply on its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and sewers; locks, weirs and embankments.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Shakespeare
ISBN: 0739323768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739323762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4747 р.
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Chaucer
ISBN: 0385507976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385507974
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1896 р.
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Описание: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet s works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. Through his wife, Philippa, he gained the patronage of John of Gaunt, which helped him carve out a career at Court. His posts included Controller of Customs at the Port of London, Knight of the Shire for Kent, and King's Forester. He went on numerous adventurous diplomatic missions to France and Italy. Yet he was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.
He began to write in the 1360s, and is now known as the father of English poetry. His "Troilus and Criseyde" is the first example of modern English literature, and his masterpiece, "The Canterbury Tales," the forerunner of the English novel, dominated the last part of his life.
In his lively style, Peter Ackroyd, one of the most acclaimed biographers and novelists writing today, brings us an eye-opening portrait, rich in drama and colorful historical detail, of a prolific, multifaceted genius."

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Lambs of London
ISBN: 0099472090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099472094
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Цена: 1979 р.
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Описание: Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and his red hair, is no ordinary young man...The Lambs of London brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit.