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Peter AckroydFoundation
Peter AckroydFoundationThe History of England from Its Earliest BeginninQUALITY PAPERBACK
UPC: 9781250037558Release Date: 9/10/2013
LIST PRICE: $19.99 (you save $6.02)
Series:Biographical note:
PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet, and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London. Main description:
“An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today.” —Daily Express (UK)
With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England’s early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought to life through the narrative mastery of one of Britain’s finest writers. Review quote:
Praise for Foundation: “The hugely popular Ackroyd’s ease of erudition ought not to be missed.” —Booklist (starred review) “Once again, Ackroyd exhibits his magic touch with the written word, this time with the first in a six-volume history of England.” —Kirkus Reviews “Ackroyd paints a portrait of early England that is both historically rich and compellingly human.” “[Ackroyd] is a natural storyteller and a passionate historian, but his true skill lies in his acute eye for revealing interesting details.” —San Francisco Book Review Table of contents:
1. Hymns of stone 2. The Roman way 3. Climate change 4. Spear points 5. The blood eagle 6. The measure of the king 7. The coming of the conquerors 8. The house 9. Devils and wicked men 10. The road 11. The law is lost 12. The names 13. The turbulent priest 14. The lost village 15. The great charter 16. Crime and punishment 17. A simple king 18. The seasonal year 19. The emperor of Britain 20. The hammer 21. The favourites of a king 22. Birth and death 23. The sense of a nation 24. The night schools 25. The commotion 26. Into the woods 27. The suffering king 28. Old habits 29. The warrior 30. How others saw us 31. A simple man 32. Meet the family 33. The divided realm 34. The world at play 35. The lion and the lamb 36. The staple of life 37. The king of spring 38. Come to town 39. The zealot king 40. The king of suspicions 41. A conclusion Further reading Index
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