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Also by Peter Ackroyd
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
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
The Clerkenwell Tales
The Lambs of London
The Fall of Troy
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
The Canterbury Tales – A Retelling
The Death of King Arthur: The
Immortal Legend – A Retelling
Three Brothers
NON-FICTION
Notes for a New Culture: An Essay
on Modernism
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag,
the History of an Obsession
Ezra Pound and His World
T. S. Eliot
Dickens’ London: An Imaginative
Vision
Ezra Pound and his World (1989)
Dickens
Introduction to Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More
London: The Biography
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews,
Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
Dickens: Public Life and Private
Passion
Albion: The Origins of the English
Imagination
The Beginning
Illustrated London
Escape From Earth
Ancient Egypt
Chaucer (Penguin Classics’ “Brief Lives” series)
Shakespeare: The Biography
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Turner Brief Lives
Thames: Sacred River
Coffee with Dickens
(with Paul Schlicke)
Newton (Penguin Classics’
“Brief Lives” series)
Poe: A Life Cut Short
Venice: Pure City
The English Ghost
London Under
The History of England,
v.1 Foundation
Wilkie Collins (Penguin Classics’
“Brief Lives” series)
The History of England, v.2 Tudors
The History of England, v.3 Civil
War (also available as Rebellion:
The History of England from James
I to the Glorious Revolution)
Charlie Chaplin
Alfred Hitchcock
The History of England,
v.4 Revolution
Queer City
The History of England,
v.5 Dominion
First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Peter Ackroyd, 2020
The right of Peter Ackroyd to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 894 4
eISBN 978 1 78689 895 1
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