The Great Fire of London

Synopsis Peter Ackroyd often takes an historical event or period and reinterprets it in light of a more modern one. In his first novel, which is essentially a rewrite of LITTLE DORRIT, Ackroyd's story involves a modern filmmaker (with the very literary name of Spenser Spender) who is trying to make a film of Dickens's novel, set in a London prison. The project becomes the focus of the interests of a colorful — and very Dickensian — collection of characters. As in all Ackroyd's novels, his first effort makes the city of London into something like a major character in the tale.

• Author
• Peter Ackroyd

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Publisher
• University Of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226002644

• Genres
• fiction, historical, novels, roman, contemporary, literature

• Release date
• 1989