The Lambs Of London - Rilegato

Ackroyd, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0701177446 ISBN 13: 9780701177447

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2004

Riassunto

At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too many while spreading his wings as a young writer, and his clever, adoring sister Mary, confined by domesticity, an ailing, dotty father and a maddening mother- Into their lives comes William Ireland, an ambitious 17-year-old antiquarian and bookseller, anxious not only to impress his demanding showman of a father, but to make his mark on the literary world. When Ireland turns up a document in the handwriting of Shakespeare himself, he takes Mary into his confidence - but soon scholars and actors alike are beating a path to the little bookshop in Holborn Passage. Touching and tragic, ingenious, funny and vividly alive, this is Ackroyd at the top of his form in a masterly retelling of a nineteenth-century drama which keeps the reader guessing right to the end.

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Recensione

"An erudite, gripping tale." (Metro)

"As clear and vivid as any work of Mr Ackroyd" (The Economist)

"I couldn't put it down and didn't want to" (Gyles Brandreth, Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro

A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of nineteenth-century London

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0701177446
• ISBN 13: 9780701177447
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224