The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time

Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England . He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Klappentext A collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, in England. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peaces and spooks who just want to have fun. This enjoyable history is perfect for Halloween and Christmas stockings. Zusammenfassung The English see more ghosts than any other nation. comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ackroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780099287575
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928757-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Life interpretation; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; England, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts), Folklore, myths & legends, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Anthologies: general, Folklore, myths and legends, Anthologies (non-poetry), Biography: historical, political and military, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)