Peter Ackroyd Livres

Quarante-trois diamants de la plus belle eau dont le " Grand Mongol ", émeraudes, saphirs, rubis... Le trésor d'Agra ! Pris entre les féroces Cipayes et la Compagnie des Indes, un rajah avisé a, bien sûr, tenté de mettre à l'abri tant de merveilles ! Ce qui n'était guère difficile : le fort d'Agra recèle mille cachettes... Retrouver la bonne est moins aisé. Codes, cartes et parchemins secrets... Celui qu'on soumet à Holmes, couvert de croix, de sigles et de rébus, est paraphé du " signe des Quatre " ! Le chemin de l'Initié ? La route de l'aventure... La piste part de Pondichery Lodge, disparaît dans la Tamise... Mais Sherlock ne perd pas le nord ! Et Watson y gagne même un plus grand trésor en suivant la trace d'une belle inconnue...

Par la magie d'un vœu, Dorian Gray conserve la grâce et la beauté de la jeunesse. Seul son portrait vieillira. Le jeune dandy s'adonne alors à toutes les expériences, s'enivre de sensations et recherche les plaisirs secrets et raffinés. " Les folies sont les seules choses qu'on ne regrette jamais ", " il faut guérir l'âme par les sens, guérir les sens par l'âme ". Oscar Wilde voulut libérer l'homme en lui donnant comme modèle l'artiste. Pour se réaliser, il doit rechercher le plaisir et la beauté, sous toutes ses formes, bien ou mal. L'art n'a rien à voir avec la morale. Dans une langue raffinée, l'auteur remet en question la société, le mariage, la morale et l'art. Ses propos sont incisifs et humoristiques. Ce livre scandalisa l'Angleterre victorienne, Oscar Wilde fut mis en prison pour avoir vécu ce qu'il écrivait. Au siècle suivant, Proust, Gide, Montherlant, Malraux ont contribué à la célébrité du génial écrivain.

Relates the various activites and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club.

In October 1843, Dickens hit upon the idea of writing a story that would not only celebrate Christmas but alert people to the desperate needs of England's poor. "The Christmas Carol" was the result. "The Chimes" is a topical satire set on New Year's Eve.

The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.

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In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life.

Oliver Twist naît orphelin dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. Mal nourri, exploité dès ses plus jeunes années, le pauvre garçon endure tout avec patience. Mais un jour, il refuse les traitements injustes qu'il subit et fuit vers Londres. Recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs, il découvre alors un autre monde, tout aussi cruel. Le destin cessera-t-il de s'acharner contre Oliver ?

Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

"Peter Ackroyd discloses the true nature of Blake's life and art. He traces his progression from early childhood in a Dissenting household, through his apprenticeship as an engraver and his studies at the newly formed Royal Academy Schools, to his full maturity when he produced the masterpieces upon which his reputation rests - works such as Jerusalem, Milton and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, works that were as neglected during his lifetime as they are celebrated today."--BOOK JACKET. "But we also see Blake in the context of his period; we see him caught up in the Gordon Riots, excited by the French Revolution, being tried for sedition during the Napoleonic wars, attracted to various forms of spiritual radicalism and sexual magic."--BOOK JACKET. "This is the first biography to reveal the true affinities between Blake's art and his poetry; in the magnificent biographical narrative we see Blake as a Cockney visionary and a London tradesman, as a prophet and an artisan."--Jacket