Blake, Ackroyd Peter

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Revolution: A History of England Volume IV (The History of England)
ISBN: 1509811478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509811472
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd`s History of England series.

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: London: a traveller`s reader
ISBN: 1472141652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472141651
Издательство: Little, Brown
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Описание: The rich and glorious past of one of the great cities of the world is brought vividly to life for today`s reader in this collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of visitors to London and of Londoners themselves.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: The Death of King Arthur
ISBN: 0140455655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140455656
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred`s treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot`s fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail. This title presents an account of the knights of the Round Table.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: London Under
ISBN: 0099287374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287377
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of verything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers and gang hide-outs. The depth below is hot, much warmer than the surface and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional -- rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. There is a bronze-age trackway under the Isle of Dogs, Wren found Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul's, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. In Kensal Green cemetery there was a hydraulic device to lower bodies into the catacombs below -- "Welcome to the lower depths". A door in the plinth of statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge leads to a huge tunnel, packed with cables -- gas, water, telephone. When the Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864 the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulphurous fumes, and called their engines by the names of tyrants -- Czar, Kaiser, Mogul -- and even Pluto, god of the underworld. Going under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world. "The vastness of the space, a second earth," writes Peter Ackroyd, "elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in equal measure."

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: London
ISBN: 0099570386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099570387
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd`s magisterial biography of the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre.

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: 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: Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 0701172843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701172848
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: 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: Brief Lives 3 - Newton
ISBN: 0099287382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099287384
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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: 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: Revolution
ISBN: 1509827641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509827640
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, 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 our 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.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Dominion
ISBN: 0230706436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230706439
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd`s acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.

Автор: Ackroyd Peter
Название: Limehouse golem
ISBN: 1784708208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784708207
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Dan Leno, the great music hall comedian, was known in his lifetime as `the funniest man on earth`. So how could he have been involved in one of the most curious episodes in London`s history when, in a short period during the autumn of 1880, a series of murders was attributed to the mysterious `Limehouse Golem`.