

The Life of Thomas More
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 18 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 18 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion
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.
Thomas More has always been a favorite historical figure of mine. Most especially because of the play/movie "A Man for All Seasons." He his portrayed as an intelligent, courageous Lord Chancellor of England who stands up against the machinations of King Henry VIII (who wanted to divorce his wife and......more
Peter Ackroyd's book, The Life of Thomas More, was one of the best biographies I have ever read. It was clear, detailed, unbiased and full of information I never knew about the saint, the times, and the major players in that epoch in history. I was very impressed with Mr. Ackroyd's grasp of the spec......more
Informative and easy to read. Ackroyd keeps the original spelling of Renaissance times, which is a little irritating, but that aside, I totally got wrapped up in his recounting of More's rise in the court of the English government, and subsequent fall from grace through King Henry's split with the c......more
The reason I docked this book two stars is the fact that Ackroyd used far too much old English in the book. It makes sense to use quotes in the original vernacular when it is appropriate but the book is riddled with it which would be no problem for scholars of that era with a familiarity with the la......more
Like his biography of Charles Dickens, Peter Ackroyd brings the flawed but complex personality of Sir Thomas More to life. An impeccably researched book, just to read the extensive bibliography Ackroyd lists at the back of the book inspires a sense of awe ! A fascinating story which fleshes out the......more