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

Ackroyd, Peter - SIGNED FIRST EDITION

ISBN 10: 0701173009 / ISBN 13: 9780701173005

Published by Chatto & Windus London, 2002

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SIGNED world first printing of this eclectic range of work. William Blake, Frank Auerbach, English and Englishness, the cinema, and work for the Spectator, Sunday Times and classic book reviews from The Times. Along with all this we even have some short stories. Signed on the title page, no date, no dedication, no other marks, not an ex library book; this is an unread as new copy, a perfect collectable book, in a perfect protected jacket. PERFECT. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Seller Inventory # ABE-6123705886

Bibliographic Details

Title: Peter Ackroyd - The Collection : Journalism,...

Publisher: Chatto & Windus London

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

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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 Times 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 own 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', 'William Blake' and 'The Nature of Time'. In addition, several essays on subjects such as the art of biography, contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach and Ackroyd's own writing have been included. Finally, three of Ackroyd's short stories have been reproduced, one of which was his first published work of fiction.

Review:

"Get lost. Wander... Diversions are part of the pleasure" (The Times)

"A mischievous and reckoning presence" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Highly entertaining" (Sunday Telegraph)