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Peter Ackroyd (1) (1949–)

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About the Author

Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He graduated from Cambridge University and was a Fellow at Yale (1971-1973). A critically acclaimed and versatile writer, Ackroyd began his career while at Yale, publishing two volumes of poetry. He continued writing poetry until he began delving into mostrar mais historical fiction with The Great Fire of London (1982). A constant theme in Ackroyd's work is the blending of past, present, and future, often paralleling the two in his biographies and novels. Much of Ackroyd's work explores the lives of celebrated authors such as Dickens, Milton, Eliot, Blake, and More. Ackroyd's approach is unusual, injecting imagined material into traditional biographies. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), his work takes on an autobiographical form in his account of Wilde's final years. He was widely praised for his believable imitation of Wilde's style. He was awarded the British Whitbread Award for biography in 1984 of T.S. Eliot, and the Whitbread Award for fiction in 1985 for his novel Hawksmoor. Ackroyd currently lives in London and publishes one or two books a year. He still considers poetry to be his first love, seeing his novels as an extension of earlier poetic work. (Bowker Author Biography) Peter Ackroyd is the award-winning author of four biographies, most recently the national bestseller "The Life of Thomas More", as well as ten novels, including "Chatterton" & "Hawksmoor". He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book, "London: The Biography. (Publisher Provided) Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in London. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras de Peter Ackroyd

London: The Biography (2000) 3,235 cópias
Hawksmoor (1985) 1,855 cópias
Shakespeare: The Biography (2005) 1,251 cópias
The Life of Thomas More (1998) 1,176 cópias
London Under (2011) 935 cópias
Blake (1995) 906 cópias
Chatterton (1987) 877 cópias
Thames: Sacred River (2007) 868 cópias
The Lambs of London (2004) 855 cópias
The Clerkenwell Tales (2003) 817 cópias
The House of Doctor Dee (1993) 816 cópias
Dickens (1990) 763 cópias
Venice: Pure City (2009) 615 cópias
The Plato Papers (1999) 489 cópias
T.S. Eliot: A Life (1984) 468 cópias
English Music (1992) 457 cópias
First Light (1989) 451 cópias
The Fall of Troy (2006) 399 cópias
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (2010) — Autor — 371 cópias
Milton in America (1996) 361 cópias
Poe: A Life Cut Short (2008) 359 cópias
Chaucer (2005) 311 cópias
Dickens (abridged) (1994) 269 cópias
The Great Fire of London (1982) 197 cópias
The Collection (2001) 170 cópias
Newton (2006) 168 cópias
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life (2015) 164 cópias
J.M.W. Turner (2005) 155 cópias
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (2014) 137 cópias
The English Ghost (2010) 137 cópias
Three Brothers (2013) 135 cópias
Wilkie Collins (2012) 129 cópias
Illustrated London (2003) 85 cópias
Mr Cadmus (2020) 75 cópias
The Beginning (2003) 66 cópias
Ezra Pound (1981) 65 cópias
Escape from Earth (2004) 55 cópias
Cities of Blood (2004) 53 cópias
Introduction to Dickens (1991) 45 cópias
The Diversions of Purley (1987) 38 cópias
Kingdom of the Dead (2004) 36 cópias
Ancient Rome (2005) 31 cópias
Colors of London: A History (2022) 30 cópias
Ezra Pound and his world (1980) 25 cópias
Ancient Greece (2005) 25 cópias
Blitz (2016) 7 cópias
London Lickpenny (1973) 6 cópias
Country Life (1978) 5 cópias
P.E.N. new fiction I (1984) 3 cópias
Dickens [2002 miniseries] (2002) 2 cópias
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar(es)
Dickens (dvd) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

O Retrato de Dorian Gray (1890) — Introdução, algumas edições39,222 cópias
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1589) — Introdução, algumas edições31,575 cópias
Paradise Lost (1667) — Prefácio, algumas edições13,790 cópias
O Sinal dos Quatro (1890) — Introdução, algumas edições5,013 cópias
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006) — Introdução — 2,583 cópias
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (1950) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,466 cópias
The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (1827) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,292 cópias
The Haunted House (1859) — Prefácio, algumas edições376 cópias
A Rogue's Life (1856) — Prefácio, algumas edições239 cópias
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (1741) — Prefácio, algumas edições193 cópias
First Folio: A Little Book of Folio Forewords (2008) — Contribuinte — 179 cópias
London: A Pilgrimage (1872) — Introdução, algumas edições148 cópias
The Worst Street in London (2008) — Prefácio, algumas edições111 cópias
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare (2010) — Introduction & Commentaries — 79 cópias
Table Talk (2000) — Prefácio, algumas edições58 cópias
Coffee with Dickens (Coffee with...Series) (2008) — Prefácio — 48 cópias
The East End: Four Centuries of London Life (1989) — Introdução, algumas edições42 cópias
Thomas Chatterton and romantic culture (1999) — Prefácio — 2 cópias

Etiquetado

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Ackroyd, Peter
Nome de batismo
Ackroyd, Peter Warwick
Data de nascimento
1949-10-05
East Acton, London
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
East Acton, Middlesex, England, UK
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Educação
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA|1971)
Yale University (Mellon Fellow 1972-1973)
St. Benedict's School, Ealing
Ocupação
novelist
biographer
tv writer/presenter
poet
historian
critic
Relacionamentos
Kuhn, Brian (partner)
Organizações
The Spectator
The Times
Premiações
Mellon Fellow
British Book Award (1991)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2003)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1998)
Whitbread Prize for Biography (1984) (mostrar todas 7)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Agente
Sheil Land Associates Ltd
Pequena biografia
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of London Under and the bestselling London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. He has won a number of accolades including the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature (The Browser).

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Discussions

Group Read: Peter Ackroyd - History of England series em 2015 Category Challenge (Julho 2018)
1001 Group Read - January, 2013: Hawksmoor em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2013)

Resenhas

I've never given a 2 star review to any book; I figure if you don't have something nice or constructive to say then don't say anything. But this book is a real hatchet job on Heinrich Schliemann. In it, the main character Obermann (obviously modeled on Schliemann) engages in, among other things, bigamy, theft of valuable artifacts and attempted murder. He is portrayed as being so blindly obsessed with a certain narrative about Troy that he attempts to kill anyone with a countervailing opinion to silence them. Spoiler: the main character dies at the end in a freak accident which I found jarring and utterly implausible, although I assume most readers applaud his demise. I found it to be an unduly abrupt and unsatisfying ending to a story that had actually been building up pretty nicely to that point.

If you're interested in Schliemann and his work at Hisarlik (Troy) you might want t read two well researched books: "The Greek Treasure" by irving Stone and "The Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann" by Leo Deuel.
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chas69 | outras 14 resenhas | Mar 6, 2024 |
A twist on the classic tale iwth lots of nods to literary figures of the times
 
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cspiwak | outras 39 resenhas | Mar 6, 2024 |
This is a terrible book. I have stared at its 270 pages without actually being able to read them. It's just so abysmally written than I could not grasp it at all. My mind would just slip after a sentence or two, and eventually I would notice that my eyes had just moved over another page full of words without knowing what they contain.

What I got from this book: there are two blokes named Nicholas, one is a dull satanist who builds churches with a secret ingredient in the 1710s, and one who investigates murders in those churches in the 1980s. In the end of the book, they merge into one single space-time paradoxical freak. That's all that happens. Now you know it all. Don't bother reading the book.… (mais)
 
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adastra | outras 41 resenhas | Jan 15, 2024 |

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Avaliação
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