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Chatterton
Peter Ackroyd

Chatterton

Hamish Hamilton (Sep 07, 1987)
9780241123485
| Hardcover
234 pages | 165 x 240 mm | English
Dewey 823/.914
LC Classification PR6051.C64 .C53 1987
LC Control No. 87674051

Genre

  • Alternative Histories (Fiction)
  • Detective And Mystery Stories

Subject

  • Alternative Histories (Fiction)
  • Chatterton, Thomas - Fiction
  • Detective And Mystery Stories
  • Great Britain
  • Literary Forgeries And Mystifications

Plot

First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A novel with three intertwined the story of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century forger, the story of George Meredith, who posed for the well-known nineteenth-century painting of Chatterton's death, and the story of two twentieth-century writers investigating an eighteenth-century manuscript. vi , 234 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..