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PETER ACKROYD
Albion
Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More, and of the bestselling
London: The Biography. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature. He lives in London.
Also by Peter Ackroyd
FICTION
The Great Fire of London
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Hawksmoor
Chatterton
First Light
English Music
The House of Doctor Dee
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Milton in America
The Plato Papers
NONFICTION
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag:
The History of an Obsession
London: The Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Ezra Pound and His World
T. S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More
POETRY
Ouch!
The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems
CRITICISM
Notes for a New Culture
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays,
Short Stories, Lectures
edited by Thomas Wright
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2004
Copyright © 2002 by Peter Ackroyd
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Albion: the origins of the English imagination / Peter Ackroyd.—1st U.S. ed.
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Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
1. England—Civilization. 2. National characteristics, English. 3. English literature—History
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