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The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.
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Dominion: The History of England Volume V (Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)
The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries.
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Charlie Chaplin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it?Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award.
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Thames: Sacred River (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source.
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Three Brothers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. This book offers an exploration of the city, peering down its streets, riding on its underground, and drinking in its pubs and clubs.
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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Peter Ackroyd brings Victorian London to life in all its guts and glory, as we travel from the glamour of the music hall to the slums of the East End, meeting George Gissing and Karl Marx along the way.
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The Lambs Of London (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile.
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Dickens: Abridged (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was... Læs mere
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Dominion: The History of England Volume V (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd’s acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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Shakespeare: The Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
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Civil War: The History of England Volume III (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The third volume of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-part History of England, taking readers from the accession of the first Stuart king, James I, to the overthrow of his grandson, James II
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
