Author

Publication

1988 - Grove Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,500 words, Guess

Page Count

234 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing93317
  • Goodreads984477

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6051.C64 C53 1988

Description

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • ChattertonGrove Press1988-01-01
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