The Limehouse Golem
Title | The Limehouse Golem PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Nan A. Talese |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2012-03-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307816230 |
Now a major motion picture A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time." -- The Sunday Times (London) Without a doubt, Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the erudition and literary brilliance we expect of Ackroyd, yet it is as vivid, scary, and spellbinding as the best of Edgar Allan Poe. The year is 1880, the setting London's poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London's dark streets, the sense of time and place becomes overwhelmingly immediate and real. We experience the sights and sounds of the English music halls, smell the smells of London slums, hear the hooves of horses on the cobblestone streets, and attend the trial of Elizabeth Cree, a woman accused of poisoning her husband but who may be the one person who knows the truth about the murders. The wonderfully rhythmic shifting of focus from trial to back alleys, where we come upon George Gissing, author of New Grub Street, and even Karl Marx, gives the story a tremendous depth and resonance beyond its page-turning thriller plot. Peter Ackroyd has once again confirmed his place as one of the great writers of our time. Previously published as The Trial Of Elizabeth Cree.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Title | Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Random House (UK) |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781856195072 |
Novel exploring Victorian popular culture and its association with the darker sides of nineteenth-century London life. By the author of T̀he house of Doctor Dee'.
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Title | The Trial of Elizabeth Cree PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN |
Chatterton
Title | Chatterton PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802134806 |
When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.
Three Brothers
Title | Three Brothers PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Nan A. Talese |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385538626 |
Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing, and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd set in the London of the 1960s. 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 Ackroyd's grand theme that place and history create, surround and engulf us. From bustling, cut-throat Fleet Street to hallowed London publishing houses, from the wealth and corruption of Chelsea to the smoky shadows of Limehouse and Hackney, this is an exploration of the city, peering down its streets, riding on its underground, and drinking in its pubs and clubs. Everything is possible—not only in the new freedom of the 1960s but also in London's timeless past.
Mr Cadmus
Title | Mr Cadmus PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1786898950 |
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus – from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of – moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. Soon, long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . . and murder.
The Fall of Troy
Title | The Fall of Troy PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2008-11-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307472817 |
In The Fall of Troy, acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and deception.Obermann, an acclaimed German scholar, fervently believes that his discovery of the ancient ruins of Troy will prove that the heroes of the Iliad, a work he has cherished all his life, actually existed. But Sophia, Obermann's young Greek wife, has her suspicions about his motivations — suspicions that only increase when she finds a cache of artifacts that her husband has hidden, and when a more skeptical archaeologist dies from a mysterious fever. With exquisite detail, Ackroyd again demonstrates his ability to evoke time and place, creating a brilliantly told story of heroes and scoundrels, human aspirations and follies, and the temptation to shape the truth to fit a passionately held belief.