London. The Biography

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint

Description: 822 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Much of Peter Ackroyds 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.London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyds status as what one critic has called our ages greatest London imagination.

ISBN: 9780099422587