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Much of Peter Ackroyd's 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 Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.'
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0385497709 Reading copy only--all pages intact--Missing Dust jacket--Visible wear-marking-shelf wear. 
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0385497717 This book has some shelf wear as well as marks on the cover and pages. This book is 801 pages of a history of London. 
Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 801pp. 
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 640 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 
Binding sound and tight without spine crease. Cover has minimal wear. Pages clean and unmarked. Includes color plates.; 1.8 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches; 848 pages. 
Reprint in paperback format, 8vo, 822pp, photo illustrations; card covers, monster book by arguably England's most interesting contemporary writer; VG+ Copy; NB This is a large heavy book; the postage for this item is outside that set by the various sites. However, for simplicity the price has been adjusted accordingly; no extra postage will be needed for this item unless purchaser requires overseas sending. 
0099422581 A masterpiece-the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong passion for the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original. Perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, London confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic called, "our age's greatest London imagination. " Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London, but this new book is his definitive account of the city. For Ackroyd's London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is The Biography, as the book is subtitled, not a History. Here Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in each age. But this is not a simple chronological record. He writes chapters on the history of silence, the history of light, the history of childhood, the history of Cockney speech, and the history of drink. He constructs a comprehensive, multilayered image of the place, animated by his concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, and the peculiar echoic' quality of London which actively affects the lives and personalities of its citizens. 848 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day! 
Trade Paperback. Anchor, 2003. Fine Book. Overall, a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. 