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Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

โœ Scribed by Ackroyd, Peter


Book ID
107302498
Publisher
Random House, Inc.
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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.


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