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Chatterton
About this work
In this remarkable detective novel Peter Ackroyd investigates the death of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century poet-forger and genius, whose life ended under mysterious circumstances. Fusing themes of illusion and imagination, delusion and dreams, he weaves back and forth between three centuries, introducing a blazing cast of Dickensian eccentrics and rogues, from the outrageous, gin-sipping Harriet Scrope, an elderly female novelist, to the tragic young poet, Charles Wychwood, seeker of Chatterton's secret... They find more riddles than answers from their search.
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Literary forgeries and mystifications
- Poets
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Novela
- Poetas ingleses
- In literature
- English Poets
- Fiction, general
- Chatterton, thomas, 1752-1770
- Fiction, alternative history
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general