A dead man in Deptford

Anthony Burgess

Original title: A Dead Man in Deptford

first published 1993 Hutchinson, 1993 272 pages

The whole of Elizabethan England--from the court and its intrigue to the theatre and its genius to London and its slums--is brilliantly recreated in this joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, killed in highly suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford hundreds of years ago.

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Editions we hold

Dead Man in Deptford edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 288 pages · 9780099541394
Dead Man in Deptford edition · 2009 · Hachette Books · 272 pages · 9780786729036
Dead Man in Deptford paperback · 2005 · VINTAGE (RAND) · 288 pages · 9780099302568
A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony) paperback · 2003 · Carroll & Graf · 272 pages · 9780786711529
A Dead Man in Deptford (ISIS Large Print) edition · 1996 · ISIS Publishing · 368 pages · 9780753151099
Mort à Deptford paperback · 1995 · Grasset · 314 pages · 9782246486312
Der Teufelspoet. hardcover · 1995 · Klett-Cotta · 273 pages · 9783608932171
A Dead Man in Deptford edition · 1995 · Carroll & Graf Publishers · 272 pages
A dead man in Deptford edition · 1993 · Hutchinson · 272 pages · 9780091779771

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