THE LAMBS OF LONDON - PETER ACKROYD

Softcover.

2004.

Publisher: Quality Paperbacks Direct.

216 pages.

From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings' favorite reprieve, and they are delighted when an ambitious young bookseller comes into their lives claiming to possess a 'lost' Shakespearea play. Soon all of London is eagerly anticipating opening night of a star-studded production of the play not knowing that they have all been duped by charlatan and a fraud. Antiquarian booksellers - England - London / Biography & Autobiography / Literary / Fiction / Biographical / Fiction / Historical / Literary / London (England)

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