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1 Turner - Brief Lives S.

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 176 pages
Published: 06/04/2006

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James Mallord William Turner entered the Royal Academy at 14 and a year later was exhibiting. His first loves were architecture, engraving and... Read more

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2 Poe: A Life Cut Short

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 176 pages
Published: 05/02/2009

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Edgar Allan Poe began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Poe has been claimed as the forerunner of modern fantasy. This... Read more

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3 The Life of Thomas More

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 512 pages
Published: 04/03/1999

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Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of... Read more

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4 Newton - Brief Lives S.

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 176 pages
Published: 03/05/2007

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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five. He was the... Read more

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5 Blake

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 464 pages
Published: 03/01/1998

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A biography of William Blake who was a poet, painter, engraver and visionary. Read more

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6 Chaucer - Brief Lives S.

by Peter Ackroyd

Format: Paperback 144 pages
Published: 07/04/2005

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Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet,... Read more

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