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Peter Ackroyd English Music
PENGUIN PUTNAM @ TRADE September 2, 19 0-14-016941-5 / 9780140169416 Paperback Very Good
With alternating chapters set in the late 1920s and in a dream world involv ing Byrd, Constable and Carroll, the novel charts the development of a moth erless young man. The author also wrote "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". He wa s elected Author of the Year in 1990 by selected booksellers.
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500.00 JPY
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Ackroyd, Peter London: The Biography
Anchor April 8, 2003 0-385-49771-7 / 9780385497718 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Novelist and biographer Ackroyd (The Plato Papers; T.S. Eliot; etc.) offers a huge, enthralling "biography" of the city of London. The reader segues through this litany of lists and anthology of anecdotes via the sketchiest of topical linkages, but no matter not a page is dull, until brief closing chapters in which Ackroyd succumbs to bathos, for which he's instantaneously redeemed by the preceding chapters. He admits to using no original research, openly crediting his printed sources. Ackroyd examines London from its pre-history through today, artfully selecting, organizing and pacing stories, and rendering the past in witty and imaginative ways. "The opium quarter of Limehouse," he tells readers, for example, "is now represented by a Chinese take-away." Fast food, it seems, was always part of the London scene. When poet Thomas Southey asked a pastry cook why she kept her shop open in the worst weather, she told him that otherwise she would lose business, "so many were the persons who took up buns or biscuits as they passed by and threw their pence in, not allowing themselves time to enter." Ackroyd covers unrest and peace, fires and ruins, river and rail transport, crime and punishment, wealth and poverty, markets and churches, uncontrolled growth and barely controlled filth. If there is a hero among the throngs, it may be engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who in 1855 began building 1,265 miles of sewers to contain the Stygian odor of progress and keep the huge, ugly metropolis livable. No one should mind the extraordinary price of this extraordinary achievement. B&w illus., map
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1500.00 JPY
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Ackroyd, Peter Milton in America
Random House of Canada, Limi 1997 0-7493-8625-8 / 9780749386252 Paperback Very Good
The poet John Milton is transposed to the New World, where he has travelled to flee the tyranny of the Old. His adventures with his amanuensis, Gooseq uill, are by turns picaresque and delightful. However, Paradise Found will ultimately be lost in the most appalling and bloody circumstances.
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500.00 JPY
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Ackroyd, Peter Thames: Sacred River
Vintage Books November 4, 200 0-09-942255-7 / 9780099422556 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "A very enjoyable and highly idiosyncratic account of the subject."-Spectat or "No one is better than Ackroyd at evoking the texture and atmosphere of the distant past. . . . As soon as you open this account of the Thames, you wi ll want to immerse yourself in it."-Daily Telegraph About the Author Peter Ackroyd is a prolific prize-winning novelist, historian and biographer.
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800.00 JPY
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ACKROYD, PETER The Lambs of London
London: Chatto & Windus, 200 2004 0-7011-7744-6 / 9780701177447 1st Edition Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
A crisp clean signed first edition no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of nineteenth-century London
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2000.00 JPY
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