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Handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, a treasure trove of book reviews from around the world covers a century of memorable writing and offers authoritative critical essays describing the importance and influence of each entry with its publishing history and career details about the author. Original.
By Peter Ackroyd (other contributor) and Peter Boxall (editor)

Hardcover:

9780789313706 | Universe Pub, March 7, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, a treasure trove of book reviews from around the world covers a century of memorable writing and offers authoritative critical essays describing the importance and influence of each entry with its publishing history and career details about the author.

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By Peter Ackroyd (introduced by), Dennis Severs and M. Stacey Shaffer (photographer)

Hardcover:

9780701172794 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $45.00

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The author of London: The Biography offers an original interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780385497725 | 1 edition (Doubleday, October 1, 2003), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Offers an interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy.

Paperback:

9780385497732 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, November 1, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers an interpretation of English culture from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, demonstrating the quintessentially English quality of literature, music, painting, architecture, science, and philosophy.

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Product Description: Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: The Biography with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link past and present. A dazzling, highly original exploration of English culture from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, ALBION demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality imbues every form of cultural expression—not just literature, but also painting, music, architecture, philosophy, and science...read more

Hardcover:

9781856197212 | Gardners Books, October 3, 2002, cover price $39.25 | About this edition: Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: The Biography with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link past and present.

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Hardcover:

9780385537414 | Nan a Talese, October 25, 2016, cover price $26.95

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Readers can visit the cradle of Western Civilization to look at the philosophers, architects, and statesmen who helped lay the groundwork for society as we know it today.

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9780756613686 | Dk Pub, October 17, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Readers can visit the cradle of Western Civilization to look at the philosophers, architects, and statesmen who helped lay the groundwork for society as we know it today.

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Traces the history of ancient Rome and how its civilization continues to influence Western culture.

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9780756616427 | Dk Pub, February 20, 2006, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Readers can visit the cradle of Western Civilization to look at the philosophers, architects, and statesmen who helped lay the groundwork for society as we know it today.

By Peter Ackroyd (introduced by)

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9780099533498 | Random House Uk Ltd, February 28, 2017, cover price $9.95

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Traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans. Reprint.

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9780789498366 | Dk Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans.

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9780756607586 | Reprint edition (Dk Pub, September 20, 2004), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Traces the history of life on Earth from the origins of the planet, through the development and extinction of a variety of life forms, to the end of the latest Ice Age and the appearance of modern humans.

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Provides an incisive portrait of William Blake that reassesses the true nature of the life and art of the enigmatic poet, painter, and engraver and places Blake and his unique, mystical art within the context of eighteenth-century thought

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9780679409670 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides an incisive portrait of William Blake that reassesses the true nature of the life and art of the enigmatic poet, painter, and engraver and places Blake and his unique, mystical art within the context of eighteenth-century thought

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9780345376114 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Provides an incisive portrait of William Blake that reassesses the true nature of the life and art of the enigmatic poet, painter, and engraver and places Blake and his unique, mystical art within the context of eighteenth-century thought

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Product Description: Dickens' novel, set in a fog-bound London, centres around two stories: the two wards of court caught up in a never-ending court case and the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock and her terrible secret. This edition contains an introduction by Peter Ackroyd.

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9780749307653 | Heinemann, April 1, 1991, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Dickens' novel, set in a fog-bound London, centres around two stories: the two wards of court caught up in a never-ending court case and the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock and her terrible secret.

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By Peter Ackroyd (foreword by), James Boswell and Frederick A. Pottle (editor)

Paperback:

9780300093018 | Yale Univ Pr, August 30, 2004, cover price $23.00

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Hardcover:

9780520041936, titled "Canterbury Tales" | Gardners Books, July 1, 1992, cover price $97.00 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales

Paperback:

9781515235576 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 27, 2015, cover price $12.99 | also contains The Canterbury Tales
9781496056566 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 24, 2014, cover price $13.99 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
9781486151981 | Lightning Source Inc, June 20, 2012, cover price $19.94 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales
9780143106173, titled "The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd" | Dlx rep edition (Penguin Classics, November 2, 2010), cover price $18.00
9781452877877 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 2, 2010, cover price $21.00 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
3 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781899644421 | Gardners Books, September 29, 2000, cover price $21.40 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales

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Hardcover:

9780670021222 | Viking Pr, October 29, 2009, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9781515235576 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 27, 2015, cover price $12.99 | also contains The Canterbury Tales

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Paperback:

9780701183509 | Gardners Books, September 4, 2008, cover price $20.25

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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students -- the religious Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the atheistic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- form an unlikely friendship which leads to heated discussions on the notions of creation and life, the result is a tour-de-force from one of the world's most accomplished authors. Filled with literary lights of the day and penned in period-perfect prose, this is sure to become a twenty-first century classic.

Hardcover:

9781410424211 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 3, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: When two nineteenth-century Oxford students -- the religious Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the atheistic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- form an unlikely friendship which leads to heated discussions on the notions of creation and life, the result is a tour-de-force from one of the world's most accomplished authors.
9780385530842 | Nan a Talese, October 6, 2009, cover price $26.95
9780701182953 | Vintage Uk, September 4, 2008, cover price $30.65

Paperback:

9780307473776 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 7, 2010), cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780701169947 | Gardners Books, April 3, 2014, cover price $23.30

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Hardcover:

9780385537377 | Nan a Talese, October 28, 2014, cover price $25.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781483024752 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 28, 2014), cover price $34.95

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By Peter Ackroyd and Ralph Lister (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781483024745 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 28, 2014), cover price $29.95

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By Peter Ackroyd and Ralph Lister (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781483024738 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 28, 2014), cover price $90.00

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Product Description: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel...read more

Paperback:

9780802134806 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries
9780345358226 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1989), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792733195 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, September 30, 2004), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792733188 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, September 30, 2004), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered.

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When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries

Hardcover:

9780802100412 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries

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Product Description: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works. Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life...read more

Hardcover:

9780385507974 | Nan a Talese, January 18, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400101603 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 1, 2005), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works.

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Product Description: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works. Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life...read more
By Peter Ackroyd and Simon Vance (narrator)

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9781400151608 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2005), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works.
9781400131600 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 1, 2005), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works.

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