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London: The Biography

The book requires a leisurely pace; anything quicker would endanger the pleasure to be had from the variety on offer. There is nothing quite like it.

The Boston Globe

Ackroyd gives London a gift, the likes of which more callow cities can only hope, one day, to get.

San Francisco Chronicle

Invariably exciting and immensely enjoyable. Ackroyd coruscates with ideas and fancies. The total effect is spectacular and vastly stimulating. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. The same could be said with equal justice of any reader who finds no pleasure or instruction in Ackroyds books.

The Spectator

Ackroyd writes in a wonderfully graphic style that carries the reader through historical byways effortlessly.

The Denver Post

A tour de force by a writer of immense skill. A treasure of information and anecdote about one of the worlds great cities, a book to be taken up again and again for the pleasures that lie within.

The Seattle Times

Ackroyd deserves great praise for writing a book equal to its gargantuan subject. [It] succeeds on the most expansive and most intimate levels.

The Orlando Sentinel

Packed with strange delights and bizarre occurrences. Ackroyd is a writer of memorable, eccentrically rhythmic sentences that one wants to quote at length.

Newsday

Enthralling. Witty and imaginative.

Publishers Weekly (starred)

Wonderful and weighty. Ackroyd has created a rich celebration of a unique city.

The Wall Street Journal

B y the same author

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FICTION
The Great Fire of London
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Hawksmoor
Chatterton
First Light
English Music
The House of Doctor Dee
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Milton in America
The Plato Papers

BIOGRAPHY
T. S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More

POETRY
The Diversions of Purley

CRITICISM
Notes for a New Culture

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Peter Ackroyd
London

Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literatures William Heinemann Award (jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London.

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List of Illustrations

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BLACK-AND-WHITE INSERT I

Early Londoner admiring London Stone (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)

John Stow (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)

Charter of William I (Corporation of London Records Office)

Marcellus Laroon, Street merchants

Aerial sketch of London, 1560 (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)

View of London Bridge by Anthonis van den Wyngaerde (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Panorama of London by Hollar (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)

View of Old St. Pauls by Hollar (Guildhall Library/Corporation of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Royal Exchange by Hollar (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Detail of map charting the Great Fire of London, 1666 (Royal Academy of Arts Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

17th c. firemen (Royal Academy of Arts Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

Hanging outside of Newgate Prison by Rowlandson (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Moll Cut-Purse (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Newgate Prison (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

National Temperance map of London (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Caf Monico, Piccadilly Circus (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

COLOR INSERT I

London from Southwark, Dutch School, c.1630 (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Entrance to the River Fleet, Samuel Scott (Guildhall Art Gallery, Corporation of London)

Detail of the City from Braun and Hogenbergs map of London, 1572 (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

Johann B. Homanns map and prospect of London, 1730 (British Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Great Fire of London, 1666 aquatint after Philippe de Loutherbourg (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 16th October 1834, J.M.W. Turner (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA/Bridgeman Art Library)

Jack Sheppard, William Thornhill (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Tom, Jerry and Logic Visiting Condemned Prisoners of Newgate Prison, George and Isaac Cruikshank (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Curds and Whey Seller, Cheapside, c. 1730, British School (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

The Meat Stall from The London Markets, engraved by M. Dubourg after James Pollard (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

Smithfield Market, engraved by R.G. Reeve after James Pollard (British Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Frozen Thames, c.1677, Abraham Hondius (Courtesy of the Museum of London)

Punch or May Day, Benjamin Haydon (Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, NY)

A Rakes Progress IV: The Arrested, Going to Court, William Hogarth (Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soanes Museum, London/Bridgeman Art Library)

The Four Times of Day: Morning, William Hogarth (Upton House, Oxfordshire, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

Whitehall and the Privy Gardens from Richmond House, Canaletto (By courtesy of the Trustees of the Goodwood Collection)

View of the Adelphi from the River Thames, William Marlow (Christies Images, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

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The Laying of the Water Main in Tottenham Court Road, George Scharf (British Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)

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