Title: Chatterton
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: 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, Authors, fiction, New York Times reviewed
People: Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), Thomas Chatterton
Time periods: 18th century