Peter Ackroyd művei

Tetszés volt célom

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

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 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...

Blake

Venice

Ezra Pound

Albion

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...

THE CLERKENWELL TALES

Dickens

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

T. S. Eliot

The plato papers

The Collection

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...

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Venedig

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

Milton in America

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 ...

Dickens

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...

Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of...

Die Themse

Nach dem epochalen Werk über London folgt nun die große Biographie über die Themse In Großbritannien ist Peter Ackroyd eine Institution. ...

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

Hawksmoor (Angol nyelvű krimi)

Blake

Thames: The Biography

In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the riv...

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...

The Limehouse Golem

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...

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

The English Actor

Innovation: The History of England Volume VI

Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the ac...

Colours of London

Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colourised photographs from Dynamichro...