Peter Ackroyd

Broschiertes Buch

Venice

Beschreibung

In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 541307
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780099422563
• ISBN-10: 0099422565
• Artikelnr.: 28995055

Rezensionen

Yet another wonderful biography of a city Lesley McDowell The Independent on Sunday