The Great Fire of London (novel)

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The Great Fire of London

First edition
Author	Peter Ackroyd
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Hamish Hamilton
Publication date	28 January 1982
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	192
ISBN	0-241-10704-0
OCLC	12500258

The Great Fire of London is a novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd.

Published in 1982, it is Ackroyd's first novel. It established themes which Ackroyd returns to again and again in his fiction:^{[citation needed]} London, English literature and the intertwining (and blurring) of literary, historical and contemporary events.

Critical reception[edit]

The novel received generally positive reviews on its publication, although many reviewers have subsequently reassessed it in the light of Hawksmoor three years later, which had a similar focus albeit with a different historical perspective. Ackroyd however has dismissed the novel outright.^[1]

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