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

Times: 18th century