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Albion by Peter Ackroyd

With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.

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Nan A. Talese is the senior vice president of Doubleday as well as the publisher and editorial director of her eponymous imprint there. She lives in New York City.

Bridget Watson Payne is a San Francisco-based book editor.

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ISBN 13 9780385497725
ISBN 10 0385497725
Title Albion
Author Peter Ackroyd
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Nan A. Talese
Year published 2003-10-21
Number of pages 560
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.