London - Street Life and the People by Peter Ackroyd

London - Street Life and the People by Peter Ackroyd

A masterpiece: London: The Biography is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original. Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. It has been abridged for audio into five broad areas of interest and is also available as a box set. For Ackroyd London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, thus London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. It is a comprehensive account, 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 is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination'. Street Life and the People vividly describes the everyday concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.

Peter Ackroyd is a best-selling writer of both fiction and non fiction. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (joint), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Guardian fiction prize. He lives in north London Simon Callow is one of Britain's most prized actors and he is also a writer. He has starred in a number of feature films including A Room with a View and Four Weddings and a Funeral. He lives in London.

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EAN	9781856867955
Title	London - Street Life and the People
Release date	2003-09-15
Format	Audiobook
Studio	Random House Audiobooks
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By (author)

PETER ACKROYD