A masterpiece -- the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong
passion for the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and
brilliantly original.
Perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, London confirms
Ackroyd's status as what one critic called, "our age's greatest London
imagination." Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and
past of London, but this new book is his definitive account of the city. For
Ackroyd's London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change,
so London is" The Biography," as the book is subtitled, not a History. Here
Ackroyd portrays London from