Peter Ackroyd
London: The Biography ,is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroydâ€™s brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging 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 cityâ€™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 Ackroydâ€™s concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar â€œechoicâ€ quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens.,London, confirms Ackroydâ€™s status as what one critic has called â€œour ageâ€™s greatest London imagination.â€
History,Nonfiction,Travel,Biography,European Literature,British Literature,Geography,Cities,Historical,Reference,Unfinished,Reference,Research
London: The Biography