The Plato Papers

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 On ritual occasions Plato! the orator! summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city! dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). Zusammenfassung On ritual occasions Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ackroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2000
• EAN: 9780099289951
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928995-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Fantasy / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary