by Peter Ackroyd · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099472094
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«The Lambs of London» is the historical novel by Peter Ackroyd, published by Vintage Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Set in nineteenth-century London, the novel follows Mary Lamb and her brother Charles, a young writer who acquires a book that supposedly belonged to Shakespeare. Mary falls in love with the antiquarian William Ireland, and the plot becomes entangled in a world of scholars, booksellers, and deceptions where a son's ambition to impress his father triggers betrayal and falsehoods.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who enjoy intrigues set in nineteenth-century London and the world of books and Shakespeare.
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
