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PETER ACKROYD

Albion

Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake, and Thomas More, and of the bestselling
London: The Biography
. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize,
The Guardian
Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature. He lives in London.

Also by Peter Ackroyd

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

NONFICTION
Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag:
The History of an Obsession
London: The Biography

BIOGRAPHY
Ezra Pound and His World
T. S. Eliot
Dickens
Blake
The Life of Thomas More

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

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2004

Copyright © 2002 by Peter Ackroyd

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese / Doubleday edition as follows:
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949–
Albion: the origins of the English imagination / Peter Ackroyd.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
1. England—Civilization. 2. National characteristics, English. 3. English literature—History
and criticism. 4. Arts, English. I. Title.
DA110 .A26 2003
942—dc21 2002043571

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