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Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Chatterton by Ackroyd, Peter [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802134807

ISBN-139780802134806

eBay Product ID (ePID)592854

Product Key Features

Book TitleChatterton

Number of Pages234 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary, Historical, Humorous / General

Publication Year1996

GenreFiction

AuthorPeter Ackroyd

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisThomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent as well as a literary counterfeiter, he is the guiding spirit of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant novel. In today's London, a young poet and an elderly novelist engage the mystery of Chatterton by trying to decode the clues found in an old manuscript, only to discover that their investigation discloses other riddles for which there are no solutions. Chatterton is at once a hilariously witty comedy; a thoughtful and dramatic exploration of the deepest issues of authenticity in both life and art; and a subtle and touching story of failed lives, parental love, doomed marriages, and erotic passions.

LC Classification NumberPR6051.C64