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The Great Fire of London

When director Spenser Spender decides to film a modern version of Dickens' Little Dorvit, it draws together an unexpected collection of strangers

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780241107041 | Hamish Hamilton, June 1, 1982, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Spenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' "Little Dorrit" using a contemporary London prison as a set.

Paperback:

9780226002644 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1989), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: When director Spenser Spender decides to film a modern version of Dickens' Little Dorvit, it draws together an unexpected collection of strangers

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

In a fictionalized autobiography, the controversial British writer considers the accomplishments and misfortunes of his life

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780060151874 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In a fictionalized autobiography, the controversial British writer considers the accomplishments and misfortunes of his life

Doors of Perception: A Guide to Reading the Psalms

By Peter Ackroyd

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Paperback:

9780716404958 | Reissue edition (Fortress Pr, August 1, 1983), cover price $5.95

T.S. Eliot: A Life

The author, one of President Tito's closest aids, recounts the political history of Yugoslavia following World War II, and describes his own career and eventual ten-year imprisonment

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780671530433 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1984, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author, one of President Tito's closest aids, recounts the political history of Yugoslavia following World War II, and describes his own career and eventual ten-year imprisonment

Paperback:

9780671605728 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author, one of President Tito's closest aids, recounts the political history of Yugoslavia following World War II, and describes his own career and eventual ten-year imprisonment

P.E.N.: New Fiction I

Twenty-nine stories by British authors offer a variety of perspectives on the trials of modern life

By Peter Ackroyd (editor) and Pen (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9780704324534 | Quartet Books Ltd, March 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Twenty-nine stories by British authors offer a variety of perspectives on the trials of modern life

Hawksmoor

Product Description: In 18th-century London, squalor vies with elegance as architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build new churches in the aftermath of the Great Fire. CID Detective Hawksmoor, 250 years later, investigates a series of murders that have occurred on the sites of certain 18th-century London churches...read more

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780060155032 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders

Paperback:

9780060913908 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754055099 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, July 1, 2002), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: In 18th-century London, squalor vies with elegance as architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build new churches in the aftermath of the Great Fire.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754003489 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In 18th-century London, squalor vies with elegance as architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build new churches in the aftermath of the Great Fire.

Ezra Pound

Presents the life and discusses the works of the controversial and influential American poet and critic.

By Peter Ackroyd

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9780500260258 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Describes the life of the American poet and assesses his artistic influence on other writers

Chatterton/00170

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

By Peter Ackroyd

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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

The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer

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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

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

Chatterton

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

By Peter Ackroyd

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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.

First Light

The excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset unexpectedly affects the lives of an archaeologist, astronomer, and an entertainer

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780802111616 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset unexpectedly affects the lives of an archaeologist, astronomer, and an entertainer

Paperback:

9780802134813 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: The excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset unexpectedly affects the lives of an archaeologist, astronomer, and an entertainer

9780345368874 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $19.00

Dickens

Detailed and definitive, this profile of the Victorian writer explores the private life of the complicated, insecure, and wildly ambitious man who became the best-known author of his day. By the author of Hawksmoor and T. S. Eliot. Reprint.

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780060166021 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Informed by the author's access to all of Dickens' correspondence, this biography represents a detailed portrait of Victorian London and an insightful profile of the complicated, intensely ambitious, and painfully insecure author

Paperback:

9780060922658 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 1992), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Informed by the author's access to all of Dickens' correspondence, this biography represents a detailed portrait of Victorian London and an insightful profile of the complicated, intensely ambitious, and painfully insecure author

Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision

By Peter Ackroyd (contributor) and Piers Dudgeon (contributor)

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Paperback:

9780747279976 | Headline Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95

Bleak House

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.

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.

Introduction to Dickens

Describes the background of each of Dickens' major works, looks at their relationship to events from his life, and discusses his style and themes

By Peter Ackroyd

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Paperback:

9780345376176 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 1992, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Describes the background of each of Dickens' major works, looks at their relationship to events from his life, and discusses his style and themes

English Music

Product Description: A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War I London into the evocative world of his imagination, where a discovery of his heritage offers him the key to understanding his own past. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780679409687 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: After the death of his mother, Timothy Harcombe is separated from his disreputable father and sent to live with his grandparents, where he becomes lost in the world of English literature

Paperback:

9780345376138 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1994), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War I London into the evocative world of his imagination, where a discovery of his heritage offers him the key to understanding his own past.

The House of Doctor Dee

Product Description: By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption. It is concerned with the prospect of an eternal city. It is about the secrets of love and power, in a world where there can be no distinction between the past and the present...read more

By Peter Ackroyd

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9780241125007 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption.

T. S. Eliot

Product Description: Eliot declarÃ³ que sÃ³lo habÃa sido feliz durante dos periodos de su vida: su infancia y su segundo matrimonio. Peter Ackroyd intenta recorrer los aÃ±os entre estos dos momentos, en los que Eliot, con la lucidez de su pensamiento, escribiÃ³ sobre la angustia, sus preocupaciones religiosas y polÃticas...read more

By Peter Ackroyd

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9789681637811 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1993, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Eliot declarÃ³ que sÃ³lo habÃa sido feliz durante dos periodos de su vida: su infancia y su segundo matrimonio.

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders

In 1880, with London's poverty-stricken Limehouse district being terrorized by a series of brutal murders, Elizabeth Cree is on trial for the poisoning of her husband, but she may also be the one person who knows the truth about the killings. By the author of Hawksmoor.

By Peter Ackroyd

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9780385477079 | Doubleday, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In 1880, with London's poverty-stricken Limehouse district being terrorized by a series of brutal murders, Elizabeth Cree is on trial for the poisoning of her husband, but she may also be the one person who knows the truth about the killings

Dan Leno And the Limehouse Golem

In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of less well-known characters, who play a significant role in a tale that is a mixture of fable, adventure and Gothic comedy.

By Peter Ackroyd

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9780749396596 | New edition (Vintage Uk, June 5, 1995), cover price $16.25 | About this edition: In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of less well-known characters, who play a significant role in a tale that is a mixture of fable, adventure and Gothic comedy.

Blake

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

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

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

Milton in America

The acclaimed British novelist and biographer presents a blend of historical fact and fiction that follows the supposed adventures of the poet John Milton, as he becomes the tyrannical leader of a community of Puritans in America.

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780385477086 | Doubleday, April 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Follows the fictional adventures of the poet John Milton, as he becomes the tyrannical leader of a community of Puritans in America

The Life of Thomas More

The prize-winning English biographer brings to life his country's famous 'man for all seasons,' focusing on the complicated dynastic, religious, and economic politics that brought More into conflict with Henry VIII and eventually claimed his life. Reprint. NYT.

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780385477093 | Doubleday, November 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents a biography of the British statesman and saint who was beheaded for refusing to break ties with the Catholic Church

Paperback:

9780385496933 | Anchor Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Presents a biography of the British statesman and saint who was beheaded for refusing to break ties with the Catholic Church

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786115211 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: Unabridged English value reproduction of Utopia by Thomas More and translated by Gilbert Burnet, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyoneâs shelf.

The Plato Papers: A Prophecy

In a now peaceful thirtyeighth century London, the city's greatest orator, Plato, reflects on the broad sweep of human history.

By Peter Ackroyd

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Hardcover:

9780385497688 | Doubleday, February 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In a now peaceful thirty-eighth century London, the city's greatest orator, Plato, reflects on the broad sweep of human history.

The East End: Four Centuries of London Life

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By Peter Ackroyd (introduced by) and Alan Palmer

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Paperback:

9780813528267 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $22.00

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