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London The Biography - Part 1 Foundations written by Peter Ackroyd performed by Simon Callow on Audio CD (Abridged)

London The Biography - Part 1 Foundations written by Peter Ackroyd performed by Simon Callow on Audio CD (Abridged)£19.99

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. It has been abridged for audio into five broad areas of interest and is also available as a box set. For Ackroyd London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, thus London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and...

London The Biography - Part 2 Street Life and The People written by Peter Ackroyd performed by Simon Callow on Audio CD (Abridged)

London The Biography - Part 2 Street Life and The People written by Peter Ackroyd performed by Simon Callow on Audio CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9781856867955
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  180 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Peter Ackroyd
Performer 1:  Simon Callow
Rarity:  Rare

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A masterpiece: London: The Biography is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original. Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. It has been abridged for audio into five broad areas of interest and is also...

available as a box set. For Ackroyd London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, thus London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record.

It is a comprehensive account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar 'echoic' quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens.

London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination'. Street Life and the People vividly describes the everyday concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.

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