The English Ghost by Peter Ackroyd
The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation.
Ackroyd's tales of ghosts are all the more touching for the common humanity of the awestricken witnesses - labourers and vicars, nurses and seamstresses - striving to describe the indescribableFunny, bizarre and frightening by turns, this is a rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights. -- Rebecca Stott * New Statesman *
Ackroyd remains a spectral presence throughout, appearing now and then to introduce a story -- Edward King * Sunday Times *
To spend time with this compact, handsome volume in the darkening nights of autumn is to lay oneself open to feelings of persistent disquiet...It represents Ackroyd's latest exploration of interests that have dominated his professional life: the weird, promiscuous mingling of present, past and future which he perceives to be threaded through human existence. -- Jonathan Barnes * TLS *
Ackroyd remains a spectral presence throughout, appearing now and then to introduce a story -- Edward King * Sunday Times *
To spend time with this compact, handsome volume in the darkening nights of autumn is to lay oneself open to feelings of persistent disquiet...It represents Ackroyd's latest exploration of interests that have dominated his professional life: the weird, promiscuous mingling of present, past and future which he perceives to be threaded through human existence. -- Jonathan Barnes * TLS *
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701169893 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701169893 |
| Title | The English Ghost |
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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