Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Having received a cryptic message ten years after her father's sudden disappearance, a young woman asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery
Peter Ackroyd Books
October 5, 1949
Peter Ackroyd is a celebrated English novelist and biographer whose work is deeply rooted in the history and culture of London. Ackroyd masterfully explores the "spirit of place" in his writing, often through the lives of artists and particularly writers, connecting their fates and works to the city's vibrant heart. His novels and biographies, frequently delving into the complex interplay of time and space, portray London as a living entity whose changing nature remains strikingly consistent. Ackroyd's fascination with the city and its literary figures crafts a rich and captivating portrait of the English metropolis.
Poems of William Blake
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Songs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of Thel A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
From athletes to academics, warriors to war horses - enter the realm of Ancient Greece. The cradle of Western civiliation, Greece was a land of innovation and supreme power. Statesmen, architects and heroes - uncover the secrets of this formidable land, if you dare... Peter Ackroyd brilliantly brings to life the wonder of the Ancient Greeks- it's history, but not as you know it!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption
The Pickwick Papers
- 760 pages
- 27 hours of reading
Relates the various activites and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club.
A visual interpretation of the nineteenth century London of Dickens' time.
A Christmas Carol 'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts. But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been... The Chimes The second of his series of Christmas books, Charles Dickens wrote The Chimes one year after A Christmas Carol. Tackling familiar themes of redemption, social injustice and family, it is a story of hope and contemplation and is a moving festive read well worth discovering.
Innovation
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMORE As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart."
