New Releases by Peter Ackroyd

" Ce " Testament ", c''est un peu la grandeur et la décadence d''un esprit brillant, insolent et révolutionnaire, brisé par le scandale et l''hypocrisie et qui découvre l''horreur de la pauvreté et de la mise à l''index. Peter Ackroyd nous restitue sa fin tragique avec une fidélité remarquable, aussi bien dans l''écriture que dans la biographie. " Le Quotidien de Paris, 14 août 1984.

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. The author also wrote "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde", "Hawksmoor", "Chatterton", "T.S.Eliot" and "First Light".

Een jonge dichter ontdekt een 18e-eeuws manuscript waaruit zou blijken dat de zelfmoord van de Engelse dichter en vervalser Thomas Chatterton gefingeerd is.

When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.

Ficticio relato autobiográfico en el que se narran las vicisitudes de sus últimos años, la pobreza y el exilio parisino de quien había llegado a ser el dramaturgo más aplaudido y admirado de Londres.

In the twentieth century, no Anglo-American poet or critic has matched the influence of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Despite his political and religious conservatism, Eliot was among the most innovative of the literary modernists, a figure to be reckoned with by admirers and critics alike. In his Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Peter Ackroyd delves into the work and mind of a man who redefined the very terms of modern poetry.

"In 1900, Oscar Wilde is living in exile in Paris. Impoverished, in failing health, and abandoned by all but a few friends, he reflects on his once-brilliant career and on the infamous trial and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency" that shattered his life. A stunning tour de force, this poignant and clever novel--daringly written by Ackroyd in the form of a journal that Wilde might have kept during the last months of his life--presents a wonderfully entertaining and touching portrait of the life of one Britain''s most famous literary figures." -- Back cover

A paper reprint of the 1982 edition. The novel is not set in 1666 but in the cold, destructive modern city where the sane lack purpose and the mad triumph. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR