# Revolution

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- Book: [Revolution](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd/revolution) ([Revolution.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd/revolution.md))
- Authors: [Peter Ackroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd)
- Publisher: Pan
- ISBN: 978-15-0981-147-2
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2017-09-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a 19th-century narrative historian and modern social analyst. Elements of thisbook seem very old-fashioned and formal - in a good way. Yet the author eschews the detached third person preferred by stuffy professionals, favouring instead a more intimate " you" that brings the reader into the dark alleys of industrial towns to sniff the urine, vomit and suppurating sores of industrial England. Those perfect sentences are scattered throughout.