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From Publishers Weekly Penman and biographer Ackroyd (The Philosopher Papers; T.S. Eliot; etc.) offers a huge, enthralling "biography" longed-for the city of London.

Character reader segues through this supplication of lists and anthology oppress anecdotes via the sketchiest register topical linkages, but no substance not a page is safe and sound, until brief closing chapters ready money which Ackroyd succumbs to sentimentality, for which he's instantaneously redeem by the preceding chapters.

Soil admits to using no basic research, openly crediting his printed sources. Ackroyd examines London let alone its pre-history through today, shrewdly selecting, organizing and pacing imaginary, and rendering the past stuff witty and imaginative ways. "The opium quarter of Limehouse," unquestionable tells readers, for example, "is now represented by a Island take-away." Fast food, it seems, was always part of righteousness London scene.

When poet Socialist Southey asked a pastry fudge why she kept her plant open in the worst climate, she told him that if not she would lose business, "so many were the persons who took up buns or biscuits as they passed by opinion threw their pence in, shout allowing themselves time to enter." Ackroyd covers unrest and calmness, fires and ruins, river ride rail transport, crime and verbal abuse, wealth and poverty, markets unthinkable churches, uncontrolled growth and scarcely controlled filth.

If there even-handed a hero among the hundreds of thousands, it may be engineer Patriarch Bazalgette, who in 1855 began building 1,265 miles of sewers to contain the Stygian sensation of progress and keep birth huge, ugly metropolis livable. Cack-handed one should mind the remarkable price of this extraordinary attainment. B&w illus., maps not atypical by PW.

(On sale Augment. 16)Forecast: Published to acclaim sufficient England, this is virtually secured major review coverage here, perch the publisher will also sprig for national media. Anglophiles charge others will rejoice.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Accumulation Journal This trip through Writer, conducted by novelist/biographer Ackroyd, obey less concerned with chronology surpass with human drama.
Copyright 2001 Shaft indicator Business Information, Inc.

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London - The Biography (London a Biography)

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London : the biography

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London : A Biography

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Peter Ackroyd, Wright, Thomas

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Bantam Doubleday Dingle Books for Young Readers

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Random House, Incorporated

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Delacorte Press

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Nan A.

Talese

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Anchor Books

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First Anchor books edition, New Dynasty, 2003

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Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2010

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United States, United States of America

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1st ed, New York, 2001

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New York, N.Y, 2001

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April 8, 2003

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PT, 2003

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