Brief Lives 3 - Newton
- 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 Soci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287384 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Brief Lives S. |
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Critics Review
“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 *
Peter Ackroyd
- Award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster.
- Author of acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers:
- London: The Biography
- Thames: Sacred River
- London Under
- Written biographies of:
- Charles Dickens
- William Blake
- Charlie Chaplin
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Authored a multi-volume history of England.
- Awards include:
- Whitbread Biography Award
- Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Guardian Fiction Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- South Bank Prize for Literature
- Holds a CBE for services to literature.
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