London The Biography
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Publisher: Random House Inc Summary: "Except for a few sections on events like the Plague and the Great Fire, which make dramatic use of first-person accounts, those looking for novelistic reconstructions of famous events will be disappointed; given the range of material he has to synthesise, Ackroyd unsurprisingly prefers to evoke the past's day-to-day texture through exposition rather than narrative. But the expository tone can be deceptive....The boo [read more]
9780385497718
ISBN:0385497717
Pub Date: 2003Publisher: Random House Inc Summary: "Except for a few sections on events like the Plague and the Great Fire, which make dramatic use of first-person accounts, those looking for novelistic reconstructions of famous events will be disappointed; given the range of material he has to synthesise, Ackroyd unsurprisingly prefers to evoke the past's day-to-day texture through exposition rather than narrative. But the expository tone can be deceptive....The boo [read more]
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9780385497718
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0385497717
Pub Date: 2003
Publisher: Random House Inc
"Except for a few sections on events like the Plague and the Great Fire, which make dramatic use of first-person accounts, those looking for novelistic reconstructions of famous events will be disappointed; given the range of material he has to synthesise, Ackroyd unsurprisingly prefers to evoke the past's day-to-day texture through exposition rather than narrative. But the expository tone can be deceptive....The book is perhaps best read out of sequence as a compendium of obscure facts and anecdotes, many of which are very entertaining."
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