Peter Ackroyd
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ix, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and the deposition and exile of James II.
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x, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
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English
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Ackroyd brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
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History of England volume 4
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ix, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state, and was also a revolutionary era in English letters. It was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and...
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x, 205 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Explores Poe's literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin and his much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol.
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143 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Examines the rise of the Inca, Aztec, and Maya civilizations, provides information about their cities, religion, people, and power structures, and discusses the tradition of warriors and warfare that led to their destruction.
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ix, 486 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
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276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's...
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244 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world -- a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, backbiters, and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives, reinforcing...