伦敦传 London : The Biography 英国传记作家彼得·阿克罗伊德代表作，呈现伦敦上下两千年的史书

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 848 pages

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Imprint:Vintage

ISBN:9780099422587

Published:6 Sep 2001

Weight:1150g

Dimensions:234 x 154 x 54 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一部呈现伦敦上下两千年的史书。从正史和民间传说到饮食和消遣娱乐。从黑衣修士会和查令十字街到帕丁顿和疯人院。从威斯敏斯特教堂和圣保罗大教堂到伦敦佬和流浪者。从移民、农民和妓女到大瘟疫、大火和二战空袭。阿克罗伊德用恢宏的城市历史、敏锐的观察、无数市民和访客的话语，揭示了伦敦如何在从远古到现代的历史洪流中淬炼成形。

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents.

Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.'

作者简介

彼得·阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949一）是当代英国重要的小说家，并享有“历史小说大师”的称号，也被誉为“当代有才华的传记作家之一”。作为一名后现代作家，阿克罗伊德与其他后现代作家既有相似之处又有根本区别，对文学创作有独到感悟和见解。阿克罗伊德具有强烈的历史意识，对民族文化传统怀有深厚的情感和使命感，历史始终是他创作的素材和灵感源泉。阿克罗伊德的作品虽然丰富多样，但具有内在一致性，主旨是通过对伦敦的历史书写探讨“英国性”。

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.