Shakespeare: The Biography
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Peter Ackroyd
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- September 7, 2006
- ISBN
- 978-0-7493-8655-9
- GTIN
- 9780749386559
- Weight, g
- 428
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary — meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground.Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.