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London: The Biography
London The Biography
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385497718
ISBN-10: 0385497717
Publication Date: 4/8/2003
Pages: 848
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Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Ackroyd's bio of London is widely considered to be 'the' book about this spectacular city. The narrative in informative and intimate, breathing life into the history and geography of one of the greatest cities in the pantheon of European cities. A must read for Anglophiles and students of English history!


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