- Underground areas, Description and travel, Subways, Tunnels
A short study of everything that goes on under London--from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations.
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Cool, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Peter Ackroyd
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Isis Large Print, Chatto & Windus, Nan A. Talese
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780753189313
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Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
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