Peter Ackroyd
5 October 1949
165 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
Also published as: ACKROYD, PETER
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The Canterbury Tales
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Hawksmoor
4 · 1975 · 28 want to read
Dickens
1990 · 22 want to read
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4 · 1994 · 22 want to read
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1984 · 14 want to read
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4 · 2005 · 12 want to read
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2 · 1993 · 9 want to read
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1 · 2000 · 8 want to read
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Foundation
5 · 2012 · 5 want to read
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Chatterton
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Blake
4 · 1995 · 6 want to read
London under
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
4 · 2008 · 5 want to read
The Thames
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2006 · 5 want to read
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English music
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Albion
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First light
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