Peter Ackroyd

London

The Concise Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 666125
• Abridged ed.
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 131mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780099570387
• ISBN-10: 0099570386
• Artikelnr.: 34442250

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Rezensionen

Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London Independent