Albion : The Origins of the English Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780099438076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 544 str.

Peter Ackroyd

Opis

Features the stories ranging from Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, via Chaucer and Shakespeare, to the Bronte sisters, 'Alice through the Looking Glass' and 'Lord of the Rings'. This work takes the reader from medieval mystery plays to music hall and pantomime; painting; and music, with Purcell and Vaughan Williams.