Mr Cadmus. Peter Ackroyd

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Автор произведения Peter Ackroyd
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      Also by Peter Ackroyd

      FICTION

      The Great Fire of London

      The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

      Hawksmoor

      Chatterton

      First Light

      English Music

      The House of Doctor Dee

      Dan Leno and the Limehouse

      Golem

      Milton in America

      The Plato Papers

      The Mystery of Charles Dickens

      The Clerkenwell Tales

      The Lambs of London

      The Fall of Troy

      The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

      The Canterbury Tales – A Retelling

      The Death of King Arthur: The

      Immortal Legend – A Retelling

      Three Brothers

      NON-FICTION

      Notes for a New Culture: An Essay

      on Modernism

      Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag,

      the History of an Obsession

      Ezra Pound and His World

      T. S. Eliot

      Dickens’ London: An Imaginative

      Vision

      Ezra Pound and his World (1989)

      Dickens

      Introduction to Dickens

      Blake

      The Life of Thomas More

      London: The Biography

      The Collection: Journalism, Reviews,

      Essays, Short Stories, Lectures

      Dickens: Public Life and Private

      Passion

      Albion: The Origins of the English

      Imagination

      The Beginning

      Illustrated London

      Escape From Earth

      Ancient Egypt

      Chaucer (Penguin Classics’ “Brief Lives” series)

      Shakespeare: The Biography

      Ancient Greece

      Ancient Rome

      Turner Brief Lives

      Thames: Sacred River

      Coffee with Dickens

      (with Paul Schlicke)

      Newton (Penguin Classics’

      “Brief Lives” series)

      Poe: A Life Cut Short

      Venice: Pure City

      The English Ghost

      London Under

      The History of England,

      v.1 Foundation

      Wilkie Collins (Penguin Classics’

      “Brief Lives” series)

      The History of England, v.2 Tudors

      The History of England, v.3 Civil

      War (also available as Rebellion:

      The History of England from James

      I to the Glorious Revolution)

      Charlie Chaplin

      Alfred Hitchcock

      The History of England,

      v.4 Revolution

      Queer City

      The History of England,

      v.5 Dominion

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      First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Peter Ackroyd, 2020

      The right of Peter Ackroyd to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on

       request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 894 4

      eISBN 978 1 78689 895 1

      Contents

       Chapter 1. The Yellow Car

       Chapter 2. Montmorency

       Chapter 3. Tesco

       Chapter 4. Poor Isolde

       Chapter 5. Hairy Men

       Chapter 6. Dum Di Dum Di Dum

       Chapter 7. The Earthquake

       Chapter 8. The Rose Tree

       Chapter 9. The Christopher

       Chapter 10. The Island

       Chapter 11. Goats and Dust

       Chapter 12. A Conniption Fit

       Chapter 13. Green Fingers

       Chapter 14. The Line

       Chapter 15. The Cat and the Parrot

       Chapter 16. The Gypsy

       Chapter 17. Very Poorly