Blake, Ackroyd Peter

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 0099422557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099422556
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Fall Of Troy, The
ISBN: 009949275X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099492757
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Sophia Chrysanthis is 16 when the archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is removing the earth methodically. Sophia finds herself baffled by the past. She is baffled by his past also which he has chosen to hide from her. But she is good at the art of archaeology.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Brief Lives 3 - Newton
ISBN: 0099287382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287384
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five. He was the professor of mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, master of the mind and president of the Royal Society. He was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the `laws of motion`. This book talks about him.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Lambs of London
ISBN: 0099472090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099472094
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and his red hair, is no ordinary young man...The Lambs of London brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 0701172843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701172848
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 32480 T
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Описание: Covers the history of the river of Thames. This book enables the reader to learn about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply on its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and sewers; locks, weirs and embankments.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, The
ISBN: 0701183500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701183509
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 14280 T
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Shakespeare
ISBN: 0739323768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739323762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 46150 T
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Chaucer
ISBN: 0385507976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385507974
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 18430 T
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Описание: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet s works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. Through his wife, Philippa, he gained the patronage of John of Gaunt, which helped him carve out a career at Court. His posts included Controller of Customs at the Port of London, Knight of the Shire for Kent, and King's Forester. He went on numerous adventurous diplomatic missions to France and Italy. Yet he was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.
He began to write in the 1360s, and is now known as the father of English poetry. His "Troilus and Criseyde" is the first example of modern English literature, and his masterpiece, "The Canterbury Tales," the forerunner of the English novel, dominated the last part of his life.
In his lively style, Peter Ackroyd, one of the most acclaimed biographers and novelists writing today, brings us an eye-opening portrait, rich in drama and colorful historical detail, of a prolific, multifaceted genius."

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Revolution: History of England
ISBN: 1470822253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781470822255
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 42290 T
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Queer city
ISBN: 0701188804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701188801
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 22080 T
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Описание: Looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In this book, the author takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth. It also tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Thames
ISBN: 0385526237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385526234
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 36960 T
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Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Poe
ISBN: 0701169885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701169886
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. This biography of Poe opens with his end, his final days - no one knows what happened between the time when friends saw him off on the steam-boat to Baltimore and his discovery six days later dying in a tavern.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: The House of Doctor Dee
ISBN: 0140171177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140171174
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 8310 T
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Описание: This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
ISBN: 1419730991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781419730993
Издательство: Abrams
Цена: 26650 T
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Описание: In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way-through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ("wolf dens" or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels), and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks, and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music, and the horror of AIDS. Ackroyd reveals the hidden story of London, with its diversity, thrills, and energy, as well as its terrors, dangers, and risks, and in doing so, explains the origins of all English-speaking gay culture.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Revolution
ISBN: 1250003644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250003645
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Описание:

The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.

In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was--again--at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.

Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange; the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation, and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely, and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

Ackroyd is the author of the first, second, and third volumes of his history of England, Foundation, Tudors, and Rebellion.