Peter Ackroyd: The Plato Papers | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780099289951 | The Plato Papers | Peter Ackroyd | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2000

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Beschreibung

On ritual occasions Plato the orator summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures on The Origin of Species by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud; whilst providing a glossary of twentieth century terms and explaining such early myths of creation as 'super-string theory' and 'relativity'.

But then he has a dream or vision or he goes on a real journey - opinions are divided - and enters a vast underground cavern where citizens of Mouldwarp London still live. On his return Plato shares his stories of this lost world but his words spread consternation among his fellow citizens and they quickly put him on trial for corrupting the youth with his lies and fables.

Über den Autor

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780099289951
ISBN-10:	0099289954
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ackroyd, Peter
Hersteller:	Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Ackroyd
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.2000
Gewicht:	0,18 kg