The fraud, Zadie Smith
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The fraud, Zadie Smith
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The fraud
Oclc number
1399565454
Responsibility statement
Zadie Smith
Summary
"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."--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Historical fiction
- Self-deception -- Fiction
- Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction
- Housekeepers -- Fiction
- Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- False personation -- Fiction
- Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 -- Fiction
- Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Large print books
- Cousins -- Fiction
- Legal fiction (Literature)
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Trials -- Fiction
- Trials -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
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- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject19
- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Historical fiction
- Self-deception -- Fiction
- Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction
- Housekeepers -- Fiction
- Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- False personation -- Fiction
- Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 -- Fiction
- Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Large print books
- Cousins -- Fiction
- Legal fiction (Literature)
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Trials -- Fiction
- Trials -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1