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For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of ... More
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Here are two thousand years of London s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar s and ... More
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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is ... More
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In this perfect companion to London The Biography , Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey ... More
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Edgar Allan Poe s life (1809 1849) was gothic, mysterious, theatrical and fatally flawed in short, an ideal subject for one of Peter Ackroyd s brilliantly concise, dramatic ... More
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Prize winning biographer/novelist Ackroyd reconstructs the life of Henry VIII's famed adversary. More
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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, ... More
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In this perfect companion to London The Biography , Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey ... More
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This is Dickens' only true mystery, a novel that he left unfinished at his death in 1870. Edwin Drood disappears soon after his engagement to Rosa Bud breaks up. Nobody is ... More
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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 ... More
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