London: The Biography - Rilegato

Ackroyd, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1856197166 ISBN 13: 9781856197168

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2000

Riassunto

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. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives - in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions - showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.

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Recensione:

“Fizzles with vitality and originality” -- Sunday Times

“Marvellous – the book about London.” -- Daily Mail

“Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...A brilliant book.” -- Sunday Telegraph
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Peter Ackroyd is a best-selling writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (joint), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Guardian fiction prize.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1856197166
• ISBN 13: 9781856197168
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 848