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Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography, Districts and Suburbs
Districts and Suburbs focuses on the nature and character of various inner city districts, and the growth of the suburbs to form the huge urban sprawl....
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Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography, Fire and Pestilence
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record....
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Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography, Foundations
Foundations tells the story of London's formation and physical conception, it's early growth and character....
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Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography, Street Life and the People
Street Life and the People vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners....
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Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography, Trade and Enterprise
Trade and Enterprise explores London as a center for international trade, finance, and culture....
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Random House Audiobooks London: The Collected Edition (5 Tapes)
Only the genius of Peter Ackroyd could consider London as a human being. His masterwork on the metropolis lends itself well to audio, and the rendition is impeccable. Rather than chronological biography, the matchless city's unwieldy treasury of facts and figures is judiciously divided into five constituents, each satisfyingly complete.<p>In different centuries described as city of the plague, the dead, the mourning, London invariably rose from the detritus of pestilence, fire and epidemic, swished her skirts, revived her street cries and returned to business. Units of local government can be traced back to early 9th century, and Ackroyd asserts There is no other city on earth which manifests such political and administrative continuity. The whole is a compound of neighbourhoods of individual style and attributes, shortcomings and achievement, whose bricks, in their time, have been as fine as any found in Rome.<p>Inns and chophouses have become bars and restaurants, coffee shops have prevailed; trading and consultation have maintained it all. Lately, close communities have evolved into areas of transience, and a measure of the discomfort and dirtiness to which Londoners historically accommodated themselves. In all quarters bawdy and genteel, aristocrat and courtesan, criminal and policeman converge, and always have. Like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.<p>A stimulating, humourous and irresistible gem. --<i>Lyn Took</i>
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Random House Audiobooks London - The Biography: Street Life and the People: Street Life
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Random House Audiobooks London: Foundations.
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Chatto and Windus London: The Biography
When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing <I>London: The Biography</I>, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the human body that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation ... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence. Probably there is no one better placed than Ackroyd--the author of mammoth lives of <I>Dickens</I> and <I>Blake</I>, and novels such as <I>Hawksmoor</I> and <I>Dan Leno and the Lime House Golem</I> which set singular characters against the backdrop of a city constantly shifting in time--to write such a rich, sinewy account of Infinite London. Ackroyd's <I>London</I> is no mere chronology. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre, war. We learn that gin was the demon of London for half a century, and that it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 'gin-houses'. Fleet Street was an area known for its violent delights where a fourteen-year-old boy, only eighteen inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane. By the mid 19th-century London had become known as the greatest city on earth. By 1939 one in five of the British population had become a Londoner.<p>Though the variousness of <I>London</I>'s chapters mean that it can be dipped into at random, Ackroyd is employing a skilful and continuous theme throughout, which constantly links past and present--the similarities of children's games in Lambeth in 1910 and 1999; the obsession with time--in twenty-first century London time rushes forward and is everywhere apparent, while in 18th-century London the church clock of Newgate regulated the times of hanging. Above all, he insists that the dark secret life of the metropolis is as relevant today as it was in perhaps its most appropriate period, Victorian London. Again and again Ackroyd returns to the image of London as a living organism, hence his use of the word biography in the title. At once awed by and intimate with this ubiquitous city, he stresses that it can be located nowhere in particular ... its circumference is everywhere. --<I>Catherine Taylor</I>
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Random House Audiobooks London - The Biography: Trade and Enterprise
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Vintage London: The Biography
When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing <i>London: The Biography</i>, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the human body that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence. <p>Probably there is no one better placed than Ackroyd--the author of mammoth lives of Dickens and Blake, and novels such as <i>Hawksmoor</i> and <i>Dan Leno and the Lime House Golem</i> which set singular characters against the backdrop of a city constantly shifting in time--to write such a rich, sinewy account of Infinite London. <p>Ackroyd's London is no mere chronology. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre and war. We learn that gin was the demon of London for half a century, and that it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 'gin-houses'. Fleet Street was an area known for its violent delights where a 14-year-old boy, only 18 inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane. By the mid 19th century London had become known as the greatest city on earth. By 1939 one in five of the British population had become a Londoner. <p>Though <i>London's</i> chapters vary meaning that it can be dipped into at random, Ackroyd is employing a skilful and continuous theme throughout, which constantly links past and present--the similarities of children's games in Lambeth in 1910 and 1999; the obsession with time--in 21st-century London time rushes forward and is everywhere apparent, while in 18th-century London the church clock of Newgate regulated the times of hanging. Above all, he insists that the dark secret life of the metropolis is as relevant today as it was in perhaps its most appropriate period, Victorian London. <p>Again and again Ackroyd returns to the image of London as a living organism, hence his use of the word biography in the title. At once awed by and intimate with this ubiquitous city, he stresses that it can be located nowhere in particular... its circumference is everywhere. --<i>Catherine Taylor</i>
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Random House Audiobooks London - The Biography: Foundations: Foundations
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Random House Audiobooks London - The Biography: Districts and Suburbs: Districts and Suburbs
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Random House Audiobooks London - The Biography: Collected Edition
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Random House Audiobooks London: Districts And Suburbs
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