The Lambs of London The Lambs of London

The Lambs of London

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2006
June 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
717.6
KB

Customer Reviews

Fpiano ,

Keep In Mind It's Fiction

Not a biography of the Lamb's but very interesting smash-up fiction. By combining the stories of the Lamb's and Ireland the Shakespeare forger you get an interesting view of literary London of the time and an interesting tale of Shakespearian forgery. Not a lot of depth to the story of Charles and Mary Lamb, however.

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