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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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The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd
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- Rok vydania
- 2004
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- Titul
- The Lambs of London
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Peter Ackroyd
- Vydavateľ
- Chatto & Windus
- Rok vydania
- 2004
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 228
- ISBN10
- 0701177446
- ISBN13
- 9780701177447
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické romány, Láska, Napätie, Britská literatúra, Veľká Británia, Londýn, O knihách, Súrodenci, Klamstvá, Rukopisy
- Pôvodný názov
- The lambs of London
- Hodnotenie
- 3,1 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.