ENGLISH GHOST, THE
分类: 图书,进口原版,History(历史),Europe(欧洲),England,
品牌: Peter Ackroyd
基本信息出版社:Anchor (2012年11月13日)平装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307473783条形码:9780307473783商品重量:263 gASIN:0307473783您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述媒体推荐“There’s plenty of marvelous information in the book about what lies beneath London. . . . Ackroyd mines historical anecdotes to great effect. . . . He is not just interested in London’s hidden relics; he’s interested in what they—and the idea of an underground—mean to a culture. London’s underworld is a ‘shadow or replica of the city,’ and it is also a shadow of ourselves and our thoughts, the stuff that’s discovered when we open the trapdoor.”
—The Daily Beast
"Eloquent and visceral."
—Kirkus Reviews
Praise forLondon: The Biography
“Magnificent. . . . Succeeds in animating on the page the life of one of the oldest and greatest . . . cities in the world.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A wonderful book, a treasure of information and anecdote … a book to be taken up again and again for the pleasures that lie within.”
—The Chicago Tribune
“Ackroyd writes in a wonderfully graphic style that carries the reader through historical byways effortlessly.”
—The Denver Post
“A tour de force by a writer of immense skill. . . . A treasure of information and anecdote about one of the world’s great cities, a book to be taken up again and again for the pleasures that lie within.”
—The Seattle Times
“Packed with strange delights and bizarre occurrences. . . . Ackroyd is a writer of memorable, eccentrically rhythmic sentences that one wants to quote at length.”
—Newsday
作者简介PETER ACKROYDis the author ofLondon: The Biography,Shakespeare: The Biography,Thames: The Biography, andVenice: Pure City; acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Sir Thomas More; and several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, among others.
From the Hardcover edition.