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  • Three Brothers
    Peter Ackroyd
    Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry Daniel and Sam Hanway born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence each boy is forced to make his own way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business of criminal gangs and crooked landlords of newspaper magnates back-biters and petty thieves.London is the backdrop...
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    22,66 €

  • Studies in the Religious Tradition of the Old Testament
    Peter R. Ackroyd / Peter RAckroyd
    These important papers by a distinguished British Old Testament theologian, many of them previously inaccessible, focus on the theme of continuity and, within that, on the development of prophecy in the Old Testament period.They include studies of ’Continuity and Discontinuity’, `The Theology of Tradition’, ’The Vitality of the Word of God’, ’The Open Canon’ and ’Original Text ...
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    46,97 €

  • Foundation
    Peter Ackroyd
    The first volume in Peter Ackroyd’s stunning six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry VII ...
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    28,28 €

  • Words and Meanings
    Ackroyd Peter R. / Barnabas Lindars / Peter R. Ackroyd / Peter RAckroyd
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    54,32 €

  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
    Peter Ackroyd
    Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington near Oxford. The coroner’s office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And from Limehouse makes contact wit...
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    24,37 €

  • Poe
    Peter Ackroyd
    Heralded as a genius the forerunner of modern fantasy and credited with the invention of the psychological drama science fiction and the detective story Edgar Allan Poe had a life as dramatic and tragic as his art. Poe’s life was dominated by dying women; his mother died of consumption when he was only two his stepmother when he was twenty and his wife Virginia died of ...
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    18,18 €

  • The Chronicler in His Age
    Peter R. Ackroyd
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    60,79 €

  • The Fall of Troy
    Peter Ackroyd
    Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes is Ancient Troy.But Obermann’s past turns out to be full of skeletons and when a young American arrives to question the archeologist’s methods and dies of a mysteri...
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    22,78 €

  • Brief Lives 3 - Newton
    Peter Ackroyd
    Isaac Newton (1642-1727) the English genius made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665 a period of which he wrote: ’I was in the prime of age for invention.’ Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge an MP Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society Newton the au...
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    13,45 €

  • The Lambs Of London
    Peter Ackroyd
    Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller’s son antiquarian William Ireland from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to Willi...
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    23,96 €

  • Chaucer
    Peter Ackroyd
    Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet self-depreciating and ironic leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant who was indicted for rape. He was captured in battle and held for ransom. He knew at first hand the ...
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    18,13 €

  • The Plato Papers
    Peter Ackroyd
    On ritual occasions Plato the orator summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary of twentieth century terms and explaining such early myt...
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    19,49 €

  • Exile and Restoration
    Peter R. Ackroyd / Peter RAckroyd
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    49,63 €