London : A Biography by Peter Ackroyd

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New York, New York, U.S.A. 2003 Soft Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 801pp.

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New York, New York, U.S.A. 2003 Soft Cover Number Line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Very Good 801 Pages. Measures: 6" x 9" Clean, tight copy with no writing or marking. The spine is not creased. Not an Ex-library book. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes numerous glossy photographs, Chronology, 79 Chapters, Index, and a photograph with brief biography of the author.

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xxvi, 801 pp., illus. (some col.), maps, bib. notes, index; 24 cm. First published, 2000. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly bowed. "London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Anecdotal, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, London is animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar 'echoic' quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London c

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