The primary problem with this book is Peter Ackroyd. This book isn't so much a history book as a tone poem or amusing essay with unannotated historical tidbits thrown in for framework. It's not really long enough for a proper book, and Ackroyd's long winded and portentious style only makes matte...
Peter Ackroy'd "Foundation" is a good book for casual English history geeks, such as myself. Not too fluffy, not too detailed. While I was sometimes surprised by his approach (unlike other sources I've read, he seems reluctant to diagnose some major royal players, such as Henry VI, as simply in...
I give this book one star for catching my interest. Although at first the "philosophical" writing style is rough reading, the story does catch it's reader during the ascending action. From there it carries a determined reader quickly through to the end and leaves you with an ache after the last p...
One of those stories one must have read. I was surprised to see how relatively unimportant Arthur himself is in the narrative. He plays a role fit for a king, not as the main protagonist, but as a constant and authoritative presence in the background. As if, without his ubiquitous and dominant pr...
What an amazing book! Profound, intriguing, emotionally heart-felt, disturbing. Everything you could want out of book. Which is to say - an incredible novel... but not for everyone.Reading HAWKSMOOR heartily rang the area of my aesthetic bells that J.G. Ballard or Steven Millhauser also chime ...
Ackroyd's usual locale is London, how the city regenerates itself from century to century, and how the ghosts of the past still exist in some way, coeval with the present populace. In a way 'The Plato Papers' followed that vision to its inevitable conclusion, as this time the present (that is to ...
At predictable intervals over the course of the last four centuries, some cynical iconoclast has suggested that William Shakespeare was a simple-minded actor from the hinterlands who was hired by an Oxford-educated aristocrat to serve as the public face for his plays. The latest incarnation of t...
If ever a book was written that reads like a dream, feels like a dream and which you will remember as a dream then it's this novel written by Peter Ackroyd. Instead of a dream I should say nightmare because after finishing the novel I felt like I had woken up from one. The first part of the book ...
Although I was initially unsure of whether I would enjoy reading this book or not, I think it was a very intriguing and thought-provoking read. I can see how some people may not like the text - I myself would not have picked this up if it hadn't been required for my British Studies minor - but I'...
Plot: This is the semi-biographical story of Charles and Mary Lamb, avid readers and fanatical in their love of Shakespeare, as they meet William Ireland an antiquarian book dealer who has made an unusual discovery. Since a lot of the events in this book are a matter of historical record, you may...
«دلقك و هيولا» يا آنگونه كه اسم اصلي‌اش است «دان لنو و گلم لايم‌هاوس» اولين رماني است كه از پيتر اكرويد نويسنده مشهور و پركار انگليسي به فارسي ترجمه شده است. پيتر اكرويد متولد 1949، رمان‌نويس مشهور انگليسي است كه در حوزه‌هاي شعر، نمايشنامه و زندگينامه‌نويسي فعاليت داشته و شهرتي براي خودش به هم زد...