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The Marvellous Boy: The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton
The Marvellous Boy The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton
Author: Linda Kelly
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he became a symbol of some of its most powerful preoccup...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780571248421
ISBN-10: 057124842X
Publication Date: 10/1/2009
Pages: 176
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Publisher: Faber and Faber
Book Type: Paperback
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