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Peter Ackroyd (1) (1949–)

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80+ obres 28,703 Membres 644 Ressenyes 79 preferits

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Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He graduated from Cambridge University and was a Fellow at Yale (1971-1973). A critically acclaimed and versatile writer, Ackroyd began his career while at Yale, publishing two volumes of poetry. He continued writing poetry until he began delving into mostra'n més historical fiction with The Great Fire of London (1982). A constant theme in Ackroyd's work is the blending of past, present, and future, often paralleling the two in his biographies and novels. Much of Ackroyd's work explores the lives of celebrated authors such as Dickens, Milton, Eliot, Blake, and More. Ackroyd's approach is unusual, injecting imagined material into traditional biographies. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), his work takes on an autobiographical form in his account of Wilde's final years. He was widely praised for his believable imitation of Wilde's style. He was awarded the British Whitbread Award for biography in 1984 of T.S. Eliot, and the Whitbread Award for fiction in 1985 for his novel Hawksmoor. Ackroyd currently lives in London and publishes one or two books a year. He still considers poetry to be his first love, seeing his novels as an extension of earlier poetic work. (Bowker Author Biography) Peter Ackroyd is the award-winning author of four biographies, most recently the national bestseller "The Life of Thomas More", as well as ten novels, including "Chatterton" & "Hawksmoor". He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book, "London: The Biography. (Publisher Provided) Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in London. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Peter Ackroyd

London: The Biography (2000) 3,235 exemplars
Hawksmoor (1985) 1,855 exemplars
Shakespeare: The Biography (2005) 1,251 exemplars
The Life of Thomas More (1998) 1,176 exemplars
London Under (2011) 936 exemplars
Blake (1995) 908 exemplars
Chatterton (1987) 877 exemplars
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) 877 exemplars
Thames: Sacred River (2007) 868 exemplars
The Lambs of London (2004) 855 exemplars
The Clerkenwell Tales (2003) 817 exemplars
The House of Doctor Dee (1993) 816 exemplars
Dickens (1990) 763 exemplars
Venice: Pure City (2009) 615 exemplars
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling (2009) 528 exemplars
The Plato Papers (1999) 489 exemplars
T.S. Eliot: A Life (1984) 468 exemplars
English Music (1992) 457 exemplars
First Light (1989) 451 exemplars
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) 422 exemplars
The Fall of Troy (2006) 399 exemplars
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (2010) — Autor — 371 exemplars
Milton in America (1996) 361 exemplars
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) 359 exemplars
Chaucer (2005) 311 exemplars
Dickens (abridged) (1994) 269 exemplars
The Great Fire of London (1982) 197 exemplars
The Collection (2001) 170 exemplars
Newton (2006) 168 exemplars
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life (2015) 164 exemplars
J.M.W. Turner (2005) 155 exemplars
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (2014) 137 exemplars
The English Ghost (2010) 137 exemplars
Three Brothers (2013) 135 exemplars
Wilkie Collins (2012) 129 exemplars
Illustrated London (2003) 85 exemplars
Mr Cadmus (2020) 76 exemplars
The Beginning (2003) 66 exemplars
Ezra Pound (1981) 65 exemplars
Escape from Earth (2004) 55 exemplars
Cities of Blood (2004) 53 exemplars
Introduction to Dickens (1991) 45 exemplars
The Diversions of Purley (1987) 38 exemplars
Kingdom of the Dead (2004) 36 exemplars
Ancient Rome (2005) 31 exemplars
Colors of London: A History (2022) 30 exemplars
London: The Concise Biography (2016) 29 exemplars
Ezra Pound and his world (1980) 25 exemplars
Ancient Greece (2005) 25 exemplars
The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2002) 14 exemplars
Blitz (2016) 7 exemplars
London Lickpenny (1973) 6 exemplars
Country Life (1978) 5 exemplars
P.E.N. new fiction I (1984) 3 exemplars
Dickens [2002 miniseries] (2002) 2 exemplars
Dickens (dvd) 1 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Nom normalitzat
Ackroyd, Peter
Nom oficial
Ackroyd, Peter Warwick
Data de naixement
1949-10-05
East Acton, London
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
East Acton, Middlesex, England, UK
Llocs de residència
London, England, UK
Educació
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA|1971)
Yale University (Mellon Fellow 1972-1973)
St. Benedict's School, Ealing
Professions
novelist
biographer
tv writer/presenter
poet
historian
critic
Relacions
Kuhn, Brian (partner)
Organitzacions
The Spectator
The Times
Premis i honors
Mellon Fellow
British Book Award (1991)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2003)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1998)
Whitbread Prize for Biography (1984) (mostra-les totes 7)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Agent
Sheil Land Associates Ltd
Biografia breu
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of London Under and the bestselling London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. He has won a number of accolades including the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature (The Browser).

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Group Read: Peter Ackroyd - History of England series a 2015 Category Challenge (juliol 2018)
1001 Group Read - January, 2013: Hawksmoor a 1001 Books to read before you die (agost 2013)

Ressenyes

I've never given a 2 star review to any book; I figure if you don't have something nice or constructive to say then don't say anything. But this book is a real hatchet job on Heinrich Schliemann. In it, the main character Obermann (obviously modeled on Schliemann) engages in, among other things, bigamy, theft of valuable artifacts and attempted murder. He is portrayed as being so blindly obsessed with a certain narrative about Troy that he attempts to kill anyone with a countervailing opinion to silence them. Spoiler: the main character dies at the end in a freak accident which I found jarring and utterly implausible, although I assume most readers applaud his demise. I found it to be an unduly abrupt and unsatisfying ending to a story that had actually been building up pretty nicely to that point.

If you're interested in Schliemann and his work at Hisarlik (Troy) you might want t read two well researched books: "The Greek Treasure" by irving Stone and "The Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann" by Leo Deuel.
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chas69 | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
A twist on the classic tale iwth lots of nods to literary figures of the times
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 39 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
This is a terrible book. I have stared at its 270 pages without actually being able to read them. It's just so abysmally written than I could not grasp it at all. My mind would just slip after a sentence or two, and eventually I would notice that my eyes had just moved over another page full of words without knowing what they contain.

What I got from this book: there are two blokes named Nicholas, one is a dull satanist who builds churches with a secret ingredient in the 1710s, and one who investigates murders in those churches in the 1980s. In the end of the book, they merge into one single space-time paradoxical freak. That's all that happens. Now you know it all. Don't bother reading the book.… (més)
 
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adastra | Hi ha 41 ressenyes més | Jan 15, 2024 |

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Obres
80
També de
19
Membres
28,703
Popularitat
#700
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
644
ISBN
730
Llengües
25
Preferit
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