Very slight edge wear and a little discolouration/colour fade to spine. A little light soiling and spotting to text block edges. Illustrated with sections of photographs and in-text illustrations. The book is animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past as well as by what he describes as the 'echoic' quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. Anecdotal, brilliant and wonderfully entertaining. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a chronological record. It differs from other histories in the range and diversity of its contents. For him London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so his "London" is a biography rather than a history. Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here is his definitive account of the city.
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