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Ackroyd examines London from its London: the biography by Ackroyd, Peter, Publication date lcp:londonbiographyackr:epub:1dd6cbf-aaaa39ba5f Foldoutcount 0 Grant.

London: the biography xxiii, 822p. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index.

Peter Ackroyd sees London Biographer/novelist Ackroyd (e.g., The Life of Thomas Moore) offers a sweeping, highly readable account of London's colorful and complicated history. In encyclopedic detail, he discusses everything from the city's crime and its theater to the notorious fog, plagues, and Great Fire of , from which the city had to be almost built.

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has Ackroyd examines London from its pre-history through today, artfully selecting, organizing and pacing stories, and rendering the past in witty and imaginative ways. "The opium quarter of Limehouse," he tells readers, for example, "is now represented by a Chinese take-away.".

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This new work is his London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the listener through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.