New Releases by Peter Ackroyd

Fictionalised biography of the sixteenth-century alchemist and astrologer - some would say mountebank and magician - Doctor John Dee.

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. The author also wrote "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde", "Hawksmoor", "Chatterton", "T.S.Eliot" and "First Light".

Een jonge dichter ontdekt een 18e-eeuws manuscript waaruit zou blijken dat de zelfmoord van de Engelse dichter en vervalser Thomas Chatterton gefingeerd is.

The story of Scotland Yard''s Nicholas Hawksmoor''s investigation of a string of homicides runs parallel to the story of eighteenth-century architect Nicholas Dyer.

In the twentieth century, no Anglo-American poet or critic has matched the influence of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Despite his political and religious conservatism, Eliot was among the most innovative of the literary modernists, a figure to be reckoned with by admirers and critics alike. In his Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Peter Ackroyd delves into the work and mind of a man who redefined the very terms of modern poetry.

A paper reprint of the 1982 edition. The novel is not set in 1666 but in the cold, destructive modern city where the sane lack purpose and the mad triumph. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR