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Peter Ackroyd Biografía y Hechos
Peter Ackroyd (East Acton (Londres), 5 de octubre de 1949) es un novelista y biógrafo inglés, conocido por su interés en la historia y cultura de Londres. Biografía Primeros años La madre de Ackroyd trabajo en el departamento de personal de una firma de ingenieros. Su padre había abandonado la familia cuando Peter era un bebé. Aprendió a leer a los 5 años y, cuando tenía 9, escribió una obra sobre Guy Fawkes. A los 7 años, descubrió que era homosexual.[1] Ackroyd estudió en la St Benedict's School y posteriormente en el Clare College, Cambridge, en donde obtuvo un título en Inglés. En 1972, fue un Mellon Fellow en la Universidad Yale. Allí escribió Notes for a New Culture, las cuales fueron publicadas en 1976. Carrera Ackroyd inició su carrera escribiendo poesía con poemarios como London Lickpenny (1973) y The Diversions of Purley (1987). Posteriormente, empezó a componer trabajos de ficción y obtuvo gran éxito, ganando el James Tait Black Memorial Prize en 1998 por la biografía Thomas More. Entre 1973 y 1977, Ackroyd trabajó en la revista The Spectator y a partir de 1978 ocupó el cargo de editor adjunto. En 1982, publicó The Great Fire of London, su primera novela. Esta fue la primera novela en una serie de obras sobre Londres, en la cual Ackroyd explora la naturaleza cambiante de la ciudad. Este tema es explorado a través de los artistas de la ciudad, especialmente de los escritores: Oscar Wilde en The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983); Nicholas Hawksmoor, Christopher Wren y John Vanbrugh en Hawksmoor (1985); Thomas Chatterton y George Gissing en Chatterton (1987); John Dee en The House of Dr Dee (1993); Dan Leno, Karl Marx y Thomas de Quincey en Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994); John Milton en Milton in America (1996); y Charles Lamb en The Lambs of London. Entre 2003 y 2005, Ackroy escribió una serie de seis libros de no ficción para niños llamada Voyages Through Time. La serie es una extensa narrativa de periodos claves de la historia y fue aclamada por la crítica.[2] Reconocimientos En 1984, Ackroyd estuvo nominado para ser un Fellow de la Royal Society of Literature. En 2003 fue nombrado comendador de la Orden del Imperio Británico. Obras Libros de ficción The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling (2009) The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) The Fall of Troy (2006) The Lambs of London (2004) The Clerkenwell Tales (2003) The Plato Papers (1999) Milton in America (1996) Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) The House of Doctor Dee (1993) English Music (1992) First Light (1989) Chatterton (1987) Hawksmoor (1985) The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) The Great Fire of London (1982) No ficción Wilkie Collins (2012) A History of England, v.1 Foundation (2011) London Under (2011) The English Ghost (2010) Venice: Pure City (2009) Poe: A life cut short (2008) Thames: Sacred River (2007) Newton (2007) Turner (2006) Shakespeare: The Biography (2005) Chaucer (2005) Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (2002) London: The Biography (2000) The Life of Thomas More (1998) Blake (1996) An Introduction to Dickens (1991) Dickens (1990) Ezra Pound and his World (1989) Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision (1987) T. S. Eliot: A Life (1984) Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession (1979) Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism (1976) No ficción para niños Ancient Rome (2005) Ancient Greece (2005) Cities of Blood (2004) Kingdom of the Dead (2004) Escape From Earth (2004) The Beginning (2003) Programas televisivos y documentales Peter Ackroyd's Venice (2009) Peter Ackroyd's Thames (2008) London Visions (2007) The Romantics (2006) London (2004) Dickens (2002) Referencias Enlaces externos Peter Ackroyd en la Internet Book Database of Fiction (en inglés) Peter Ackroyd en Internet Movie Database (en inglés).. Descubre los libros populares de Peter Ackroyd. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Peter Ackroyd
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The Harold Nicolson Diaries
Harold Nicolson & Nigel NicolsonOne of the great 20th century political diaries'Brilliant, riveting stuff' TRIBUNE'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on ev...
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Ideaflow
Jeremy Utley & Perry Klebahn'A gamechanger' | 'A mustread' | 'Simple yet powerful'The single best way to have a great idea is to produce lots of ideas.The number of new ideas your organization can produce is ...
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
Sir Keith ThomasWitchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could ...
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The Golden Egg
Donna Leon'The familiar characters and Venetian location are described with remarkable freshness and, as always, the edifying result is both amusing and thoughtprovoking.' Sunday TelegraphA ...
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Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen
Michael MoorcockGloriana rules an Albion whose empire embraces America and most of Asia. A new Golden Age of peace, enlightenment and prosperity has dawned. Gloriana is Albion and Albion is Gl...
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The Penguin Social History of Britain
Roy PorterA portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals...
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The Command of the Ocean
N A M RodgerThe Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the ...
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The Literary Psychogeography of London
Ann TsoThis Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of Londonness. Ann Tso a...
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London: A Traveller's Reader
Peter Ackroyd & Thomas WrightLoved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries the world's greatest city. Its streets, teeming with history, have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the di...
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Patriot or Traitor
Anna BeerA BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fif...
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Trace Elements
Donna LeonTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Leon is a superb novelist . . .You can feel the tension, fear, horror and wonder' The Times'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patie...
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The Shadow of the Sun
Ryszard Kapuściński & Klara Glowczewska'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski ha...
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Hitler's Bastard
Eric Pleasants, Douglas Botting & Ian SayerOf all the extraordinary individual accounts that have come out of the Second World War and its aftermath, few can compare with that of Eric Pleasants, a member of the 'bastard' Br...
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Henry III (Penguin Monarchs)
Stephen ChurchHenry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He was on the throne for 56 years and during this time England was transformed from...
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Edward III and the Triumph of England
Richard BarberA fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from awardwinning author and historian Richard BarberThe destruction of the French army at Créc...
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Peter Ackroyd's London As the Backdrop to Esoteric Corners of the Past and Present (Literature)
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English StudiesABSTRACT This article concerns Peter Ackroyd's depiction of London as an arcane labyrinth within which demarcation of the borderline between what is rationally, historically acknow...
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Peter Ackroyd and Metafiction. A Brief Introduction
Marta Zapała-KrajPeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and educated at St. Benedict’s School, Ealing. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge and then won a research fellowship to study at Ya...
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Falling in Love
Donna Leon'Donna Leon's deft and descriptive words do for Venice what Canaletto did for this serenest of cities with his brushes and paint palette and bring it to life in all its reach and c...
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Quantum Body
Dr. Deepak ChopraA visionary collaboration from three of today’s most powerful minds.Coming together in an unprecedented collaboration, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra, physicist Jac...
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
Donna Leon'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple effects of a single traumatic event . . . Leon has recast the city in her own venerable image: full of surprises and h...
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The Christmas Stories
Charles DickensAfter the success of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' name became so synonymous with Christmas that on hearing of his death in 1870 a young girl in London asked, "Mr. Dickens de...
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Piranha to Scurfy (Storycuts)
Ruth RendellIn a house filled floor to ceiling with books, a lonely middleaged man scrutinises new publications for editing errors. He is obsessive, writing angry letters to each author he fin...
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User Friendly
Cliff Kuang & Robert FabricantAMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICKFORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and r...
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: A Sensory Ride (Enhanced Edition)
Ian MortimerThe past is a foreign country this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (15581603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If...
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Peter Ackroyd and Metafiction. A Brief Introduction
Marta Zapa?a-KrajEssay from the year 2015 in the subject English Literature, Works, grade: 5.0, , language: English, abstract: Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and educated at St. Benedict...
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Plagiarism in Peter Ackroyd's Fictional Biography 'Chatterton'
Rositsa KronastBy problematizing originality, authenticity and truth, this paper deals with the concept of plagiarism in a poststructuralist mode. It is especially concerned with the representati...
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The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius
Liz TranFulfill your innermost dreams and ambitions by turning up the volume on your intuition and reconnecting with your Inner Genius.Executive coach Liz Tran asks you to train yourself t...
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Edward II (Penguin Monarchs)
Christopher Given-Wilson'He seems to have laboured under an almost childlike misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmle...
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A Fairweather Eden
Mark Roberts & Michael PittsThe discovery of the remains of 'Boxgrove Man', a 'Missing Link' hominid half a million years old in chalk pits in Sussex made world headlines in May 1994. This was...
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Summary of Peter Ackroyd's Foundation
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The first sarsen stone was raised in the circle of Stonehenge, and the land we cal...
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Germany
Dr Neil MacGregorFrom Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherToday, as the dominant economic force in Europe, Germany looms as l...
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The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Alexander Pope & Leo DamroschAlexander Pope (16881744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its en...
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
Peter RossA FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, t...
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The Gadget Show
Ebury PublishingChannel 5’s The Gadget Show finally has its own Shiny New Book. Here, the presenters of the show bring you their complete guide to gadgets, punishing and pushing every conceivable ...
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Rogue Warrior of the SAS
Martin Dillon & Roy BradfordMore than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the mos...
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Susana Onega Jaen 1999: Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd.
revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos AtlantisSusana Onega Jaen 1999: Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd. Columbia, SC.: Camden House. 214 pp. Together with Julian Barnes, Peter Ackroyd (1949) is arguably the ...
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
Donna Leon'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The TimesA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR ...
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Decca
Jessica Mitford'These letters are a treat ... as an example of what a woman can do once she has rid herself of, or at least decided to ignore, the expectations of others family, men, society Je...
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Death in a Strange Country
Donna Leon'Brunetti . . . long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives' Evening StandardWhen the body of a young man is pulled out of a fetid Venetia canal, all clues point ...
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
Donna Leon'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The TimesImportant information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, an...
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Circus of Dreams
John WalshSomething extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms o...
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Chaplin
David RobinsonDavid Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever ...
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Layer cake - the representation of London in Penelope Lively’s "City of the Mind" and Peter Ackroyd’s "London: The Biography"
Ana Colton-SonnenbergAs history is inevitably constructed, fact and fiction lay very closely together. Furthermore, history cannot be but a subjective notion since every person, including historians, h...
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The Day We Went to War
Terry Charman11:15 am, 3 September 1939. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain confirms the nation's fears by announcing that Britain is at war with Germany. Outbreak is the definitive history of ...
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Straight Acting
Will Tosh'Engrossing, enlightening and hugely entertaining'SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith'Brilliant so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating'KATHERINE ...
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Shakespeare's Words
Ben Crystal & David CrystalA vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. ...
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London's Triumph
Stephen Alford'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be sexy, thrilling and epic' Sinclai...
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Creative Acts For Curious People
Sarah Stein Greenberg & Stanford d.school'Packed end to end with ways to see the world in new ways' Mike Krieger, cofounder, Instagram 'Designed to spark creativity, help solve problems, foster connection and make our liv...
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Ring of Steel
Alexander WatsonSunday Times History Book of the Year 2014Winner of the 2014 Wolfson History Prize, the 2014 GuggenheimLehrman Prize in Military History, the Society for Military History's 2015 Di...
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My Heart is My Own
John GuyNow a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.For centuries, Mary, Queen of Scots has bee...