Brief Lives 3 - Newton
$29.58
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2007
Summary
The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd’s Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner.Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote- ‘I was in the prime of age for invention.‘Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099287382 |
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Brief Lives S. |
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“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius.” The Times
A terrific piece of work … this is a wonderfully writerly book, never less than elegant in construction and execution – Marcus Berkmann * Spectator *Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius – Nigel Hawkes * The Times *Beautifully written and engaging – Allan Chapman * BBC History *Ackroyd has a fine eye for the intimate, thorny details that breathe life into biographies * Herald *
About The Author
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London- The Biography, Thames- Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, 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 Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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