LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY (ACKROYD) (PB)

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.' More than a simple chronological record, Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. 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.