Reading & Training
- 112 pages
- 4 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.
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITHWilliam Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by
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
- 291 pages
- 11 hours of reading
"This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to read comparatively both published versions of this controversial novel." ""Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" allow readers to gauge The Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception when the 1890 version appeared and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed its publication. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde offer a sense of the diverse opinions on these topics. Eight contemporary reviews and comments on the novel are reprinted, among them four opinions from the St. James's Gazette immediately after publication in 1890, each followed by Oscar Wilde's vehement reply." ""Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of perspectives associated with Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen O'Connor, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, John Paul Riquelme, and Michael Patrick Gillespie provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.
Dickens's first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr Pickwick and a range of characters such as Jingle, Sam Weller and various other 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.
Orlando
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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