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1. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel by Peter Ackroyd [Mainstream]
2. Very Long [150000 words]London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd [History]
3. Thames by Peter Ackroyd [History]
  1. Very Long [150000 words]London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd [History]

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1 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Peter Ackroyd
  When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.   This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsessi... more info>>
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2 London: The Biography [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Peter Ackroyd
  London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the... more info>> (Published: 2001)

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3 Thames [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Peter Ackroyd
  In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry the VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men a... more info>>
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4 The Canterbury Tales [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Peter Ackroyd
  A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer's classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and a... more info>>
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5 Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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  When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton's long-time research on calculus, finally made public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European ... more info>>
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6 Poe [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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  PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More, and the author of the bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his previous Brief Life was Isaac Newton. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (jointly) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and is the holder of a CBE for services to literature. He is the author of Thames: The Biography. His novels include The Last Testam... more info>>
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7 The Clerkenwell Tales [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Peter Ackroyd
  From a master historian--a brilliantly original historical novel set in late-14th century London. "I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods." Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St. Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she "see" a future in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with The Nun's Tale, and continues with The Friar's Tale, Th... more info>>
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8 The Fall of Troy [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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  Heinrich Obermann, a celebrated German archaeologist, has uncovered the ancient ruins of Troy on a Turkish hillside. He fervently believes that his discovery will prove that the heroes of the Iliad, a work he has cherished all his life, actually existed. Sophia, Obermann's young Greek wife, works at the site carefully preserving the ancient treasures she uncovers. But Sophia soon comes to see another side of her husband. He is mysteriously vague about his past and the wife he claims died years b... more info>>
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9 The Lambs of London [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Peter Ackroyd
  Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book--it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of Lo... more info>>
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