Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination - Rilegato

Ackroyd, Peter

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0385497725 ISBN 13: 9780385497725

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2003

Riassunto

Offers an interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy.

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Recensione

“Ackroyd covers not only literature but art, architecture, music and almost everything else that has passed through the minds of the English...just one damn interesting thing after another.” -- Sunday Times

“Albion is an explosion, full of particles whizzing through air...crammed, digressive, learned, knotted.” -- Daily Telegraph
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore

Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award (jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385497725
• ISBN 13: 9780385497725
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 524