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2004., General, Chatto & Windus Call No: Bio C496a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ackroyd brief lives.Summary Note: Biography.
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1990., Sinclair-Stevenson Limited Call No: Bio D548a Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- London, the biography.2000., Adult, Chatto & Windus Call No: 942.1 A182l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2009, c2008., Vintage Call No: Bio P743a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". Peter Ackroyd's biography of Poe opens with his end, his final days - no one knows what happened between the time when friends saw him off on the steam-boat to Baltimore and his discovery six days later dying in a tavern. This mystery sets the scene for a short life packed with drama and tragedy (drink and poverty) combined with extraordinary brilliance. Poe has been claimed as the forerunner of modern fantasy, and credited with the invention of psychological dramas (long before Freud), science fiction (before H.G. Wells and Jules Verne) and the detective story (before Arthur Conan Doyle). Tennyson described him as 'the most original genius that America has produced'.
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c2005., Nan A. Talese Call No: Bio S527a Edition: 1st ed. in the United States of America. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Biographer and novelist Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer. His method is to position the playwright in the context of his world, exploring everything from Stratford's humble town to its fields of wildflowers; discerning influences on the plays from unexpected quarters; and entering London with the playwright as modern theatre, as we know it, is just beginning to emerge. Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked.--From publisher description.
