A Child Called 'It'
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Condition: New
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Publisher: Anchor / Vintage
Language: English
Publication Year: 2001
In this masterful biography, Ackroyd recreates the life and world of Sir Thomas More, the statesman and author of Utopia, who was executed for defying King Henry VIII. Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of 16th-century London, placing More within the context of the late medieval world that was rapidly being transformed by the Reformation.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Condition: New
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Publisher: Anchor / Vintage
Language: English
Publication Year: 2001
In this masterful biography, Ackroyd recreates the life and world of Sir Thomas More, the statesman and author of Utopia, who was executed for defying King Henry VIII. Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of 16th-century London, placing More within the context of the late medieval world that was rapidly being transformed by the Reformation.
