Chatterton - Hardcover

ACKROYD, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0241123488 ISBN 13: 9780241123485

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1987

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First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A novel with three intertwined stories: 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..

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A bestseller in Britain, Chatterton is the latest of Ackroyd's fictional games with figures from Britain's literary past. The plot centers around the discovery by Charles Wychwood, an aspiring poet, of an old manuscript that he believes to have been written by Thomas Chatterton, the 18th-century English poet who committed suicide at 18. Or did he? Ackroyd tantalizingly explores the themes of reality and illusion, truth and falsity, mortality and immortality, and the curious and inexplicable ways in which past, present, and future are entwined. An intriguing plot, laced with mystery and a hint of possession (a favorite subject of Ackroyd's), combines with a gallery of eccentric characters and some witty dialogue to produce this skillful, engaging, thought-provoking novel.Bryan Aubrey, Fairfield, Iowa
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