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  1. The Great Fire of London is a novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. Published in 1982, it is Ackroyd's first novel. It established themes which Ackroyd returns to again and again in his fiction: [citation needed] London, English literature and the intertwining (and blurring) of literary, historical and contemporary events ...

    • Peter Ackroyd
    • 1982
  2. 1. Jan. 1982 · The Great Fire of London plays with this idea of cultural irrecoverability. The Cambridge expert (whom Spender hires as a scriptwriter) cannot bring back the world of Dickens. Nor can Audrey, a lunatic telephonist who claims to be in contact by séance with Amy Dorrit and thinks herself possessed by the Victorian heroine. Least ...

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  3. 2. Dez. 2009 · The great fire of London : a novel. by. Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Motion picture industry, Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts, English fiction. Publisher. London : Penguin Books.

  4. 1. Jan. 2001 · A slow-moving novel haunted by grief, solitude, and melancholy, The Great Fire of London showcases a gentle and restless intellect in full flight and ranks as one of the finest and most innovative texts from the Oulipo Centre for Prose Wizardry and Assorted Genius.

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  5. It is, rather, a book about an attempt to write a novel, called The Great Fire of London, an attempt which fails. Two key things prompted its writing. The first was the death of his wife, Alix. The second was a dream he had.

  6. The Great Fire of London. Peter Ackroyd. Penguin Books, 1993 - Fiction - 169 pages. Spenser Spender wants to make a film of Dickens' Little Dorrit using a contemporary London prison as a set....

  7. Peter Ackroyd. H. Hamilton, 1982 - English fiction - 169 pages. A paper reprint of the 1982 edition. The novel is not set in 1666 but in the cold, destructive modern city where the sane lack...