Peter Ackroyd

Revolution

The History of England Volume IV

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.

Produktdetails

• The History of England
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Pan
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781509811472
• ISBN-10: 1509811478
• Artikelnr.: 48075372

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: List of illustrations Chapter
1: What do you think of predestination now? Chapter
2: A bull or a bear? Chapter
3: The idol of the age Chapter
4: Hay day Chapter
5: The prose of gold Chapter
6: Waiting for the day Chapter
7: The great Scriblerus Chapter
8: The Germans are coming! Chapter
9: Bubbles in the air Chapter
10: The invisible hand Chapter
11: Consuming passions Chapter
12: The What D'Ye Call It? Chapter
13: The dead ear Chapter
14: Mother Geneva Chapter
15: The pack of cards Chapter
16: What shall I do? Chapter
17: Do or die Chapter
18: The violists Chapter
19: A call for liberty Chapter
20: Here we are again! Chapter
21: The broad bottom Chapter
22: The magical machines Chapter
23: Having a tea party Chapter
24: The schoolboy Chapter
25: The steam machines Chapter
26: On a darkling plain Chapter
27: Fire and moonlight Chapter
28: The red bonnet Chapter
29: The mad kings Chapter
30: The beast and the whore Chapter
31: A Romantic tale Chapter
32: Pleasures of peace Section
ii: Further reading Index
iii: Index

Rezensionen

Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a 19th-century narrative historian and modern social analyst. Elements of thisbook seem very old-fashioned and formal - in a good way. Yet the author eschews the detached third person preferred by stuffy professionals, favouring instead a more intimate "you" that brings the reader into the dark alleys of industrial towns to sniff the urine, vomit and suppurating sores of industrial England. Those perfect sentences are scattered throughout. Gerard DeGroot The Times