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Charlie Chaplin

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099287568

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 207g

  • RRP: £8.99

Charlie Chaplin

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099287568

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 207g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "Haunting... Brilliant and unsparing"

    Guardian

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About the Author

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. 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.

Peter Ackroyd

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