Description
| Product ID: | 9780099422587 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | London |
| Subtitle: | The Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Ackroyd |
| Page Count: | 880 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Urban communities, Social & cultural history, Urban communities, London, Greater London |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. 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. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so 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. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-09-06 |
