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I561.45/1231 版次： |
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I561.45 版次： |
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著者:
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Smith, Zadie. |
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题名:
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The fraud / / , |
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出版发行:
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出版地： New York : 出版社： Penguin Press, 出版日期： [2023] |
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载体形态:
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454 p., 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm. |
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附注:
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"This novel is loosely based on the life of William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82)"--Page 455. |
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内容提要:
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The 'Tichborne Trial'--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task ..."-- |
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主题词:
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Peerage claims Great Britain |
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Impostors and imposture |
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Housekeepers England |
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Cousins |
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Trials England |
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索书号:
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I561.45/1231 |