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The fraud

Title

The fraud / Zadie Smith.

Author

Smith, Zadie

Publication

New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
©2023

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Description

454 pages; 25 cm

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."--

Subject

Genre/Form

Novels.
Historical fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
Fiction.
Trials, litigation, etc.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1208

ISBN

9780525558965
0525558969
9780525558972 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023022290

OCLC

1354647592

Author

Smith, Zadie, author. Author

Title

The fraud / Zadie Smith.

Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Women

Britons

Writers

University and college faculty members

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1208

JFE 23-2758

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