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Poe: A Life Cut Short
Amazon.com — POE: A Life Cut Short = A Book Cut Short!!! I love Poe. I love reading his writings and reading writings about him. Mr. Ackroyd's take on the Divine Edgar seems to have been written whilst on the run. (Or more likely to jump-the-gun and take some ...More…
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The Collection
Amazon CA — Author Peter Ackroyd Dewey Decimal Number 808 EAN 9780099428947 Edition New edition ISBN 0099428946 Number Of Pages 480 Publication Date 2002-08-01 Release Date 2002-08-01More…
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Shakespeare: The Biography
Amazon.com — shakespeare in historical and literary context A very readable book that perhaps repeats what thewriter believed to be shakespeare's many facets and qualities. Chapters are very short and invite the reader to carry on reading. It is an easy read book, ...More…
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Ezra Pound (Literary Lives)
Amazon.com — helpful Let's face it, few of us are likely to hack our way through the thickets (some of them rendered in Chinese) of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Even in college, in a course on modern literature, we didn't actually read the Cantos, instead we read ...More…
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The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Amazon.com — Chilling mystery set in 1880's London After I finished "The Trial of Elizabeth Cree", I felt chilled by how Ackroyd strings us along for the whole novel, and blows us out of the water with an unexpected revelation. Set in 1880 and in London, ...More…
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The Life of Thomas More
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The Life of Thomas More is Peter Ackroyd's biography--from baptism to beheading--of the lawyer who became a saint. More, a noted humanist whose friendship with Erasmus and authorship of Utopia earned him great fame in Europe, ...More…
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The Great Fire of London (Phoenix Fiction Series)
Amazon.com — Author Peter Ackroyd Dewey Decimal Number 823.914 EAN 9780226002644 ISBN 0226002640 Number Of Pages 176 Publication Date 1989-06-15More…
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The Clerkenwell Tales
Amazon.com — Rather a chore to read I would only recommend this book to students of the 14th or 15th century. The plot is ponderous and the characters un-engaging. The atmosphere of the Middle Ages seems well drawn and is the best part of the book. After reading of ...More…
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Dickens: Public Life & Private Passions
Amazon.com — This will not do. I read only the first 100 pages before abandoning this. Ackroyd writes in an irritating punchy style with many 1-word sentences to show emphasis. This aggressive style was offensive, and at time condescending. It also was distracting. ...More…
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A Traveller's Companion to London (Traveller's Companion ...
Amazon.com — London as you have never seen it This must be the finest collection of London images that you have ever seen. A wonderful pictorial essay from the finest public buildings and monuments to back street cafes and green spaces. Quite breathtaking. Dewey ...More…