London
the biography
1st ed.
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Word Count
200,250 words, Guess
Page Count
801 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3944457M
- ISBN-100385497709
- OCLC Control Number45963158
- OCLC Control Numberlondonbiography2001ackr
- Library of Congress Control Number2001027153
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- Goodreads67722
- LibraryThing10104
Classifications
- DDC942.1
- LCCDA677 .A23 2000b
Description
"London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.". "Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century.". "Anecdotal, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, London is 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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