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The Great Fire of London (novel)
''The Great Fire of London'' is a novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd.
Published in 1982, it is Ackroyd's first novel. It established themes which Ackroyd returns to again and again in his fiction: London, English literature and the intertwining (and blurring) of literary, historical and contemporary events.
==Summary==
Spenser Spender is a film director, trying to get an ambitious project to adapt Charles Dickens' novel ''Little Dorrit'' to the big screen. His marriage is disintegrating, although he cannot perceive it. Rowan Phillips, a gay Cambridge don, is enlisted to write the screenplay. Rowan is mildly infatuated with Timothy, whose girlfriend Audrey is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, precipitated by a subconscious identification with the character of Little Dorrit. Arthur, incarcerated at the prison adjacent to Spenser's film set, relives a delusional obsession based on a Little Dorrit-like character, one which had led to his imprisonment for the murder of a young girl.
As production of the film gets underway, the lives of the principal characters gradually converge until they coincide at a latter-day conflagration at the site of Marshalsea Prison, Dickens' location for the original novel.
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