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A Brief Life : Charlie Chaplin

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He was the very first icon of the silver screen and remains one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even a hundred years after his first film. But who was the man behind the moustache? What dove the artist who not only directed the films but held the camera and acted in front of it?

Peter Ackroyd turns the spotlight on Caplin's often controversial life as well as on his classic films, form his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to his winning an honorary Academy Award. Everything is here: the glamour of his golden age, the murky scandals of the 1940s, and his eventual exile in Switzerland. This masterly brief biography offers fresh revelations about one of the most familiar faces of the last century and brings the Little Tramp vividly to life.

"Chaplin's rise makes an embralling story, and it's one perfecly suited to Peter Ackroyd's prodigious and idiosyncratic talents...... Ackroyd acknowledges Chaplin's many human failings, while at the same time giving us a vivid sense of what made the man a genius.
- The Telegraph.

"A fine biography ......... The luxury of a short book about vase life cannot be overestimated."
- Financial Times.

"Ackroyd has turned in the best account of Chaplin's formation beneath the teetering chimmey stacks of Victorian London, fragnant with the odours of dung,s moke and beer ...... Ackroyd is just the man to puncture the whippers with which Chaplin embroidered his past, without being too much of a scold."
- New Statesman

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927.9 ACK c

Publisher

New York : Nan A. Talese., 2014

Collation

vii, 296: ill.; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-385-53737-7

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927.9

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Edition

First ed., 2014

Subject(s)

biography
Chaplin, Charlie
motion picture actors and acatresses, United State

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