Peter Ackroyd The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures

Ackroyd, Peter & Thomas Wright

ISBN 10: 0099428946 / ISBN 13: 9780099428947

Published by Random House UK, 2002

About this Item

Binding tight. Pages unmarked but tanned throughout. Spine has a couple small creases, remains straight. Cover has light shelf wear, nothing substantial or worth noting besides rubbed corners. ; 6 X 1.25 X 9 inches; 480 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peter Ackroyd The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099428946
• ISBN 13: 9780099428947
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good+

About this title

Synopsis

During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews and articles for the "Spectator", on literature, film and a number of social and cultural issues. "The Collection" offers a selection of these incisive and entertaining pieces, which established Ackroyd's reputation as a writer. Since 1986, Ackroyd has been chief book reviewer for "The Times", and in this capacity he has reviewed some of the most important biographies and novels published over the last fifteen years. A selection of his "Time" reviews are included here. These reviews, and his articles for the "Sunday Times" display his characteristic attitudes to literature and art. They also throw interesting lights on his won work as a prize winning novelist and biographer. "The Collection" also contains a number of Ackroyd's interesting and provocative lectures on The Englishness of English literature, London Luminaries and Cockney Visionaries and William Black, a Spiritual Radical. In addition, several essays on subjects such as Ackroyd's own writing and contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach have been included. Finally, three of Ackroyd's short stories have been reproduced, one of which was his first published work of fiction. "The Collection" is a revealing and fascinating anthology of Ackroyd's ideas and preoccupations. As such, it is the ideal companion volume to his novels and biographies. With the exception of five pieces, none of the writing contained in this volume has ever been collected: The Collection also contains much previously unpublished material.

About the Author

Peter Ackroyd's masterpiece London- The Biography was published in 2000, to critical acclaim and commercial success. His novels include Hawksmoor, Chatterton, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and, most recently, The Plato Papers.