Peter Ackroyd
3) Newton
Author
Series
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Newton was not yet twenty - five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton's long-time research on calculus, finally made public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European...
4) Chaucer
Author
Series
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Explores Poe's literary accomplishments and legacy against the background of his erratic, dramatic, and sometimes sordid life, including his marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin and his much-written-about problems with gambling and alcohol.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As Victor Frankenstein begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men--the resurrectionists--whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In Thames: the Biography, Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend on the river for their livelihoods. He visits all the towns and villages along the river, from Oxfordshire to London, and describes the magnificent royal residences, as well as the bridges and docks, locks and weirs, found along its 215-mile...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 283
Publisher
Distibuted by Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English