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Cast out by his stepfather to the brutal boarding school Salem House, young David Copperfield learns that he must fight for a better life. He escapes London and finds his way to Dover. Once there he hopes to be taken in by his only known relative, his eccentric Aunt Betsy Trotwoo ...
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And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy's fiancee and to plot the murder of Edwin himself.
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The third volume of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial six-part History of England, taking readers from the accession of the first Stuart king, James I, to the overthrow of his grandson, James II
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The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
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The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background.
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Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background.
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so he regards this as a biography rather than a history.
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The poet John Milton is transposed to the New World, where he has travelled to flee the tyranny of the Old. His adventures with his amanuensis, Goosequill, are by turns picaresque and delightful. However, Paradise Found will ultimately be lost in the most appalling and bloody cir ...
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Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington. But perfect specimens are hard to come by ...until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, hears the splashing of oars and sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of t ...
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