Revolution: A History of England Volume IV (The History of England), Ackroyd Peter

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: 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: Lambs of London
ISBN: 0099472090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099472094
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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.

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: 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: Dominion
ISBN: 1509881328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509881321
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd`s acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Hawksmoor
ISBN: 014104201X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141042015
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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Описание: 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 the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 0141442298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141442297
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Описание: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd. `The Canterbury Tales` is a major part of England`s literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath`s Arthurian legend to the Miller`s worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly romance - the tales encompass a blend of universal human themes. Ackroyd`s retelling is a highly readable, prose version in modern English, using expletive and avoiding euphemism, making the Tales much more accessible to a new generation of readers.

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: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Plato`s Papers
ISBN: 0099289954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099289951
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Описание: Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city. He dwells particulary on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300), which existed before the dimming of the stars and the burning of the machines. But then he is put on trial.

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: Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, The
ISBN: 0701182954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701182953
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Описание: Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner`s office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Poe
ISBN: 0701169885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701169886
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Описание: Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. This biography of Poe opens with his end, his final days - no one knows what happened between the time when friends saw him off on the steam-boat to Baltimore and his discovery six days later dying in a tavern.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Hawksmoor
ISBN: 0140171134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140171136
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Описание: In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build seven new churches. They are to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment - but Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each one.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: The House of Doctor Dee
ISBN: 0140171177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140171174
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.