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Albion: the origins of the english imagination

โœ Scribed by Ackroyd, Peter

Book ID
100533254
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
1019 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0307424650

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โœฆ Synopsis

With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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