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Albion - The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagerism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts and eccentrics.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd creates Dickens as the consummate artist & entertainer, a man whose public persona gave little hint of the darkness of his private life.
Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling London: A BiographyLavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text and captions. Divided into three parts:Fire and Destiny London as metropolis; maps an ...Show more
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
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Shakespeare : The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. The book is packed with gems - an ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book, as much a work of history as a biography, is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political treatise, Utopia, that gave a political worldview; and, most famous ...Show more
Turner by Peter Ackroyd
$10.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
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