London - The Biography
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2003
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Collected ed
Random House Audiobooks (Verlag)
978-1-85686-793-1 (ISBN)
Random House Audiobooks (Verlag)
978-1-85686-793-1 (ISBN)
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so he regards this as a "biography" rather than a history.
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives - in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions - showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives - in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions - showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.
Peter Ackroyd is a best-selling writer of both fiction and non fiction. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (joint), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Guardian fiction prize. He lives in north London Simon Callow is one of Britain's most prized actors and he is also a writer. He has starred in a number of feature films including A Room with a view and Four weddings and a Funeral, the lives in London.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2003 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 125 x 145 mm |
Gewicht | 885 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85686-793-5 / 1856867935 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85686-793-1 / 9781856867931 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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