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$28.00
Apr 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780385497718
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Dec 23, 2009 | ISBN 9781400075515
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Praise
“Magnificent. . . . Succeeds in animating on the page the life of one of the oldest and greatest cities in the world.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Ackroyd is the most effortless guide. . . . This is much more than history: it is a tapestry of inspiration and love.” —The Observer
“An erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city. . . . As exuberant, energetic and alarming as the city itself.” —Independent on Sunday
“A fat and filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about the capital is crammed into the eight-hundred pages.”–The Times
“If London had the ability to choose its biographer it undoubtedly would tap Peter Ackroyd.”–Vanity Fair
“A wonderful book, a treasure of information and anecdote about one of the world’s great cities, a book to be taken up again and again for the pleasures that lie within.”–Chicago Tribune
“A book to match its subject . . . one gratefully rediscovers that urban unreality, the city of romance and mystery as well as the one of shops, pubs, and thoroughfares.” —The Washington Post
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