Charlie Chaplin

Author(s): Peter Ackroyd

Biography, Memoir & Autobiography

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award. Everything is here, from the glamour of his golden age to the murky scandals of the 1940s and eventual exile to Switzerland. This masterful brief life offers fresh revelations about one of the most familiar faces of the last century and brings the Little Tramp into vivid colour.

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A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd

Short, insightful, filled with Ackroyd's signature insight and acuity -- a must for all Ackroyd fansSheds new light on one of the most iconic film stars, as well as being a fascinating snapshot of the first half of the twentieth century

Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Wilkie Collins and Thomas More and of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

General Fields

  • : 9780701169947
  • : Random House
  • : Chatto & Windus
  • : 0.567
  • : March 2014
  • : 204mm X 138mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2014
  • : August 2023
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Ackroyd
  • : Hardback with dustjacket
  • : 791.43028092
  • : very good
  • : 272