London The Biography by Peter Ackroyd Doubleday, 864 pp., $45 TO AMERICAN TOURISTS, standing in line at the Tower or Westminster Abbey, London seems an old city, enveloped in architectural and ...
"London: The Biography" (Doubleday, 773 pages, $45) by Peter Ackroyd. "London has always been an ugly city. It is part of its identity," writes Peter Ackroyd, lover of London and author of its ...
Novelist and biographer Ackroyd (The Plato Papers; T.S. Eliot; etc.) offers a huge, enthralling "biography" of the city of London. The reader segues through this litany of lists and anthology of ...
Where lies the soul of a city? Peter Ackroyd, the indefatigable chronicler of London, has always found it in the inherited store of legends, horrors, triumphs and prejudices that reverberate through ...
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