Beschreibung:
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.
Die Engländer, so Peter Ackroyd, sehen mehr Geister als alle anderen Nationen. Jede Region hat ihre besonderen Geister, manche riechen nach altem Leder, manche duften nach Thymian, es gibt solche, die schweigen und solche die reden. Manche suchen Rache, andere spuken nur zum Spaß. Vom Mittelalter bis heute werden Geschichten über gesichtete Geister weitergegeben - dies ist eine die Jahrhunderte überspannende, faszinierende wie auch unterhaltsame Sammlung solcher Berichte.
An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun.
The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.