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Bibliography

Bibliography

Peter Ackroyd

Poetry: 

  • Ouch! (1971)
  • London Lickpenny (1973)
  • The Diversions of Purley and Other Poems (1987)

Fiction:

  • THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (1982)
  • THE LAST TESTAMENT OF OSCAR WILDE (1983)
  • HAWKSMOOR (1985)
  • CHATTERTON (1987)
  • FIRST LIGHT (1989)
  • ENGLISH MUSIC (1992)
  • THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR DEE (1993)
  • DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (1994)
  • MILTON IN AMERICA (1996)
  • THE PLATON PAPERS (1999)
  • THE MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS (2000)
  • THE CLERKENWELL TALES (2003)
  • THE LAMBS OF LONDON (2004)
  • THE FALL OF TROY (2006)
  • THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (2008)
  • THE CANTERBURY TALES: A Retelling (2009)
  • THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR (2010)
  • THREE BROTHERS (2013)

Non-fiction

  • 1976 Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism
  • 1978 Country Life
  • 1979 Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag, the History of an Obsession
  • 1980 Ezra Pound and His World
  • 1984 T. S. Eliot
  • 1987 Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision
  • 1989 Ezra Pound and his World (1989)
  • 1990 Dickens
  • 1991 Introduction to Dickens
  • 1995 Blake
  • 1998 The Life of Thomas More
  • 2000 London: The Biography
  • 2001 The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
  • 2002 Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
  • 2002 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
  • 2003 The Beginning
  • 2003 Illustrated London
  • 2004 Escape From Earth
  • 2004 Ancient Egypt
  • 2004 Chaucer Brief Lives
  • 2005 Shakespeare: The Biography
  • 2005 Ancient Greece
  • 2005 Ancient Rome
  • 2005 Turner Brief Lives
  • 2007 Thames: Sacred River
  • 2008 Coffee with Dickens (with Paul Schlicke)
  • 2008 Newton Brief Lives
  • 2008 Poe: A Life Cut Short
  • 2009 Venice: Pure City
  • 2010 The English Ghost
  • 2011 London Under
  • 2011 The History of England, v.1 Foundation
  • 2012 Wilkie Collins Brief Lives
  • 2012 The History of England, v.2 Tudors
  • 2014 The History of England, v.3 Civil War
  • 2014 Charlie Chaplin
  • 2015 Alfred Hitchcock
  • 2016 The History of England, v.4 Revolution
  • 2017 Queer City

Peter Ackroyd