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Brief Lives 10 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287560 (0-09-928756-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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Brief Lives 4by Peter AckroydISBN 0099287676 (0-09-928767-6)
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Brief Lives 5 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287579 (0-09-928757-9)
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Brief Lives 6 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287471 (0-09-928747-1)
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Brief Lives 7 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287374 (0-09-928737-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief Lives 7 - Untitled'Book summary:From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London.
This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of verything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers and gang hide-outs. The depth below is hot, much warmer than the surface and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional -- rats and eels, monsters and ghosts.
There is a bronze-age trackway under the Isle of Dogs, Wren found Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul's, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. In Kensal Green cemetery there was a hydraulic device to lower bodies into the catacombs below -- "Welcome to the lower depths". A door in the plinth of statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge leads to a huge tunnel, packed with cables -- gas, water, telephone. When the Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864 the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulphurous fumes, and called their engines by the names of tyrants -- Czar, Kaiser, Mogul -- and even Pluto, god of the underworld.
Going under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world. "The vastness of the space, a second earth,"
writes Peter Ackroyd, "elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in equal measure."
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Brief Lives 8 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287277 (0-09-928727-7)
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Brief Lives 9 - Untitledby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287668 (0-09-928766-8)
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The Casebook of Victor Frankensteinby Peter AckroydISBN 0099524139 (0-09-952413-9)
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The Collectionby Peter AckroydISBN 0099428946 (0-09-942894-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Peter AckroydISBN 0007208316 (0-00-720831-6)
Softcover, Collins Harvill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bards plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its clarity and scholarship.
Described in the Guardian on its first publication in 1951 as a symbol in the history of our national culture, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long been established as one of the most authoritative editions of Shakespeares works, and was chosen by the BBC as the basis for its televised cycle of the plays.
The book starts with two specially written articles a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and a wide-ranging introduction to Shakespeare theatre by the late Anthony Burgess. Each play is also introduced by academics from Glasgow University, where Professor Alexander undertook his editing.
New to this edition is an internet resources section, providing details of the most useful Shakespeare websites. In addition, the invaluable glossary of over 2,500 entries explaining the meaning of obsolete words and phrases (complete with line references) has been expanded and redesigned to make it much easier to use.
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Dickensby Peter AckroydISBN 0099455285 (0-09-945528-5)
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The Fall of Troyby Peter AckroydISBN 009949275X (0-09-949275-X)
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Hawksmoorby Peter AckroydISBN 0140171134 (0-14-017113-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hawksmoor'Book summary:In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build seven new churches. They are to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment - but Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each one. Two hundred and fifty years later, in the same vast metropolis, a series of murders occur on the sites of those same churches. Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates, but the gruesome crimes make no sense to the modern mind...Combining thriller, ghost story and metaphysical tract, "Hawksmoor" won the Whitbread Book Award and "Guardian" Fiction Prize in 1985. [via]
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The House of Doctor Deeby Peter AckroydISBN 0140171177 (0-14-017117-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Doctor Dee'Book summary:This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past. [via]
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The Lambs of Londonby Peter AckroydISBN 0099472090 (0-09-947209-0)
Softcover, Random House
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wildeby Peter AckroydISBN 0060151870 (0-06-015187-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Life and Times of Charles Dickensby Peter AckroydISBN 0060922656 (0-06-092265-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Times of Charles Dickens'Book summary:Detailed and definitive, this profile of the Victorian writer explores the private life of the complicated, insecure, and wildly ambitious man who became the best-known author of his day. By the author of Hawksmoor and T. S. Eliot. Reprint. [via]
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The Life of Thomas Mooreby Peter AckroydISBN 0099288982 (0-09-928898-2)
Softcover, Random House
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London: The Photographic Atlasby Peter Ackroyd , GetmappingISBN 0007184352 (0-00-718435-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
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Major Non-Fiction 1by Peter AckroydISBN 0099422557 (0-09-942255-7)
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Major Non-Fiction 2by Peter AckroydISBN 0099422565 (0-09-942256-5)
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Newtonby Peter AckroydISBN 0099287382 (0-09-928738-2)
Softcover, Random House
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Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernismby Peter AckroydISBN 0064900088 (0-06-490008-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Peter AckroydISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Plato Papers : A Prophecyby Peter AckroydISBN 0099289954 (0-09-928995-4)
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter AckroydISBN 0140439072 (0-14-043907-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign of Four'Book summary:Yellow fog is swirling through the streets of London, and Sherlock Holmes himself is sitting in a cocaine-induced haze until the arrival of a distressed and beautiful young lady forces the great detective into action. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has received a present of a rare and lustrous pearl. Now, on the day she is summoned to meet her anonymous benefactor, she consults Holmes and Watson.[via]More editions of Sign of Four:
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