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    London: The Biography
    London: The Biography
    London: The Biography
    Audiobook32 hours

    London: The Biography

    Written by Peter Ackroyd

    Narrated by Nigel Patterson

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    About this audiobook

    London: The Biograph is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the listener 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 confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9781705200803
    London: The Biography
    Author

    Peter Ackroyd

    Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography, as well as the History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

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      Magnificent! One of the greatest books ever written about a city.