Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England"s history, now turns to the story of England itself.

In FOUNDATION the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England"s prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: our common law and our cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of our most distant past - a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house - and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon or Norman French.

With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the familiar story of warring kings, of civil strife and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how our forebears lived: the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life through the narrative mastery of one of our finest writers. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The History of England: Volume1: Foundation (Peter Ackroyd)