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　　With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter

Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an

inspired look into the heart and the history of the English

imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges

across literature and painting, philosophy and science,

architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the

twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists

as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and

Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes

contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a

passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A

brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion

reveals the manifold nature of English genius.

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　　Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and

nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies

Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More and the novels

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America, and

The Plato Papers. He has won the Whitbread Biography

Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award

(jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and The

Guardian fiction prize. He lives in London.

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　　Ackroyd covers not only literature but art, architecture,

music and almost everything else that has passed through the minds

of the English?just one damn interesting thing after another.? --

Sunday Times

　　Albion is an explosion, full of particles whizzing through

air?crammed, digressive, learned, knotted.? -- Daily Telegraph --

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With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.