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DescriptionTitle : Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination Author : Peter Ackroyd ISBN : 9780385497725 Genre : Literature,Fiction No of Pages : 560 pages Publisher : Anchor Language : English ISBN-10: 0385497733 ISBN-13 : 9780385497732 Cover :  Summary : With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo- Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.    Related Torrents
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