ISBN号:9780525558972
书名:The Fraud
作者:Zadie Smith
出版日期:2023-09-05
英文简介:
The New York Times bestseller * One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year * One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly “[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog .
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The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.
” –Los Angeles Times From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story–and who gets to be believed 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 sceptical.
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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Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of “other people.
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中文简介:
《纽约时报》畅销书 * 《纽约时报》年度十佳图书之一 * NPR 年度最佳图书之一 * 被《出版商周刊》评为年度最佳图书 “史密斯目录中的[A]精彩新条目……对史密斯来说,欺诈案并不是一个改变,而是展示了她的才能有多么广泛。
” ——《洛杉矶时报》 广受好评的畅销小说家扎迪·史密斯 (Zadie Smith) 创作了一部千变万化的历史小说作品,以分裂维多利亚时代英国的法律审判为背景,讲述了谁可以讲述自己的故事,以及谁可以被相信。
那是 1873 年。
伊丽莎·图切特 (Eliza Touchet) 是一位苏格兰女管家,也是一位曾经著名小说家威廉·安斯沃斯 (William Ainsworth) 的堂兄,她已与威廉·安斯沃斯一起生活了三十年,而威廉·安斯沃斯如今已日渐衰落。
塔切特夫人是一位兴趣广泛的女性:文学、正义、废奴主义、阶级、她的表弟、他的妻子、今生和来世。
但她也持怀疑态度。
她怀疑表弟没有才华;他的成功朋友查尔斯·狄更斯先生是一个恶霸和道德家;英格兰是一个充满表面现象的国家,一切事物都不像看上去的那样。
与此同时,安德鲁·博格尔在牙买加的希望种植园长大,被奴役。
他知道每一块糖都会付出人类的代价。
说富人欺骗穷人。
人们比他们意识到的更容易被操纵。
当博格尔发现自己身在伦敦,成为一起著名诈骗案的明星证人时,他知道自己的未来取决于讲述正确的故事。
“蒂奇伯恩审判”——一位来自澳大利亚的下层屠夫声称他实际上是一笔相当大的遗产和头衔的合法继承人——吸引了图切特夫人和整个英格兰。
罗杰·蒂奇伯恩爵士真的如他所说的那样吗?还是他是个骗子?图切特夫人是一位见多识广的女人。
博格尔先生并不傻。
但在一个充满虚伪和自欺欺人的世界里,决定什么是真实的却是一项复杂的任务。
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《骗局》取材于真实的历史事件,是一部关于真实与虚构、牙买加与英国、欺诈与真实以及“其他人”之谜的令人眼花缭乱的小说。
书籍总体字数:107910,除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余97599计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间,难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中:
四级单词出现90430个/次,
六级单词(排除四级单词后)出现1259个/次,
托福单词出现44200个/次,
SAT单词出现6273个/次,
GRE单词出现8676个/次,考研单词出现90786个/次,
雅思单词出现21426个/次。
高中单词出现86856个/次。
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这些统计基于我的词库,不排除词库存在误差,仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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