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。
London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd’s brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2188.html
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 beginning of the twenty-first century. Anecdotal, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, London is animated by Ackroyd’s concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar “echoic” quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2188.html
London confirms Ackroyd’s status as what one critic has called “our age’s greatest London imagination.”文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2188.html
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