Peter Ackroyd művei

Tetszés volt célom - William Shakespeare élete

Ackroyd életrajzában egy valóságos, igazi hús-vér ember bontakozik ki előttünk, aki benne él a gondokkal és örömökkel teli anyagi világba...

The Fall of Troy

Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Soph...

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called Universi...

Blake

Venice

Ezra Pound

Cities of Blood - voyages through time

Human sacrifice. War. Royal Palaces. Explore the awesome history of Meso America. Take a trip through the Zapotecs' City of the Gods or l...

T. S. Eliot

Shakespeare - The Biography

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

The Clerkenwell Tales

From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tal...

Ancient Rome

Dan Leno and the Limhouse Golem

Foundation - The History of England

Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This firs...

The great fire of London

Ancient Greece (Voyages through time)

Chaucer (Brief Lives)

J.M.W. Turner

Dressing Up - Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession

The House of Doctor Dee

This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen M...

The Limehouse Golem

Dickens

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of on...

The History of England: Volume IV. Revolution - Revoluciya: istoriya Anglii. Ot bitvi na reke Boin do Vaterloo, orosz nyelvű

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Ezra Pound and his world

Chatterton

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called Universi...

The Plato Papers (A Platón-iratok, angol nyelven) - saját képpel

Milton in America

English Music

A kötet alsó széle enyhén kunkorodik, gerincen enyhe törés

Dickens

THE CLERKENWELL TALES

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day ("Meleg London a rómaiaktól napjainkig" angol nyelven)

Thames: Sacred River

'Thames: Sacred River', by the bestselling author of 'London: The Biography', is about the river from source to sea. It covers history fr...

Blake

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called Universi...

Hawksmoor (Angol nyelvű krimi)

London - Die Biographie

Eine großartige Geschichte der Weltstadt London »London ist so groß und wild, dass es alles in sich enthält«, schreibt Peter Ackroyd und ...

Venedig - Biographie einer einzigartigen Stadt

Die großartig erzählte Biografie eines einmaligen Sehnsuchtsorts Alles an Venedig ist einmalig: die Lage, die Geschichte, die Bedeutung. ...

Tetszés volt célom (William Shakespeare élete)

Shakespeare személye és zseniális tehetsége igazi rejtély. Miként válhatott egy tanulatlan, vidéki mesterember fia alig néhány év alatt k...

Auden

Peter Ackroyd's compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century. Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, W...

London: The Biography

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...

London - The Biography

Chatterton

The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answe...

Forgotten London - Exploring the Hidden Life of the City

Peter Ackroyd, acclaimed historian and critic, uncovers London’s hidden past in this richly illustrated journey through its forgotten str...