Peter Ackroyd

Wielki artysta, mały tyran - sugestywna biografia Petera Ackroyda oddaje sprawiedliwość osobie Charliego Chaplina. Był jedną z pierwszych prawdziwych ikon kina oraz legend Hollywoodu. Kim jednak tak naprawdę był ów mężczyzna z wąsikiem? Książka Petera Ackroyda prezentuje najważniejsze momenty w życiu Chaplina, poczynając od jego musicalowych...

'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will...

This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the "Tudors". Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, "Tudors" recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both...

From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents....

A NovelA New York Times Notable Book andProvidence Journal Best Book of the YearFrom the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries.Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an unlikely friendship as first-years at Oxford. Shelley...

A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "e;our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time."e; -- The Sunday Times (London) The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree is without a doubt Peter Ackroyd's...