As Peter Ackroyd, novelist, critic and biographer of Charles Dickens and Sir Thomas More, asserts in his new book: “The English see more ghosts than anyone else.”

彼得•阿克罗伊德是小说家、评论家暨查尔斯•狄更斯和托马斯•莫尔爵士的传记作者，正如他在新书中的断言：“英国人比别人看见更多的鬼魂。”

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Peter Ackroyd has written more than two dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, short and long (his "Dickens" is as good a doorstop as any).

彼得·埃克·罗伊德写过二十多部小说和非小说作品，既有短篇，也有长篇(他的《狄更斯》就像其它相关入门级作品一样的出色)。

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Within hours of landing, I had sat at the organ upon which George Frideric Handel played the London premiere of "Messiah, " stood in the poky little room where Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist, " and accepted my award upon the very spot that the residence of Lord Peter Wimsey had once stood, at 110A Piccadilly.

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