Civil War, Peter Ackroyd

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: London
ISBN: 0099422581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099422587
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: London
ISBN: 0099570386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099570387
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Описание: An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd`s magisterial biography of the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre.

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: English ghost, the
ISBN: 0099287579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287575
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Описание: The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. This title presents a treasure trove of such sightings.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Foundation (The History of England 1)
ISBN: 0330544284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330544283
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: The first volume in Peter Ackroyd`s stunning new six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry VII

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Tudors
ISBN: 1447236815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447236818
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Описание: The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors

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: The Death of King Arthur
ISBN: 0140455655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140455656
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Описание: The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred`s treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot`s fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail. This title presents an account of the knights of the Round Table.

Автор: Peter Ackroyd
Название: Three Brothers
ISBN: 0701186933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701186937
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Описание: Follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by coincidence, each boy is forced to make his way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, back-biters and petty thieves.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Alfred Hitchcock HB
ISBN: 0701169931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701169930
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Описание: Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe.

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' portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films.

Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Alfred Hitchcock wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.

Автор: Peter Ackroyd
Название: Civil War
ISBN: 1447260708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447260707
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Описание: In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king.

Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant - warts and all - portrayal of Charles's nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood', the king he executed.

England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.

Автор: Ackroyd, Peter
Название: Three Brothers
ISBN: 0099566036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099566038
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Описание: From bustling, cut-throat Fleet Street to hallowed London publishing houses, from the wealth and corruption of Chelsea to the smoky shadows of Limehouse and Hackney, this is an exploration of the city, peering down its streets, riding on its underground, and drinking in its pubs and clubs.