Thames

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by  Ackroyd Peter

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FICTION
The Great Fire of London
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Hawksmoor
Chatterton
First Light
English Music
The House of Doctor Dee
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Milton in America
The Plato Papers
The Clerkenwell Tales
The Lambs of London
The Fall of Troy
NONFICTION
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
London: The Biography
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
BIOGRAPHY
Ezra Pound and His World
T. S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More
Shakespeare: The Biography
ACKROYD’S BRIEF LIVES
Chaucer
J. M. W. Turner
Newton
Poe
POETRY
Ouch!
The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems
CRITICISM
Notes for a New Culture
The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
edited by Thomas Wright

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THE BIOGRAPHY
P e t e r A c k r o y d
nan a . ta l e s e
doubleday
New York London
Toronto Sydney Auckland
Copyright © 2007 by Peter Ackroyd
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of The Doubleday
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.nanatalese.com
Originally published in Great Britain as Thames: Sacred River by
Chatto & Windus, London, in 2007.
DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
Book design by Ellen Cipriano
Maps by Reginald Piggott
Picture research by Lily Richards
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
Thames : the biography / Peter Ackroyd. — 1st ed. in the U.S. of America
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Thames River (England)—History. 2. London (England)—History. I. Title.
DA670.T2A316 2008
942.2—dc22
2008002864
eISBN: 978-0-385-52847-4
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For Penelope Hoare
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