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28 ago 2023 · Fiction. Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable. Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on...
27 ago 2023 · The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – a trial and no errors. Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines...
The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023. [1] [2] [3] [4] Synopsis. Mrs Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper and a cousin by marriage of William Harrison Ainsworth. In 1873 she has been living with him for thirty years in London, Brighton and Surrey.
- Zadie Smith
- Novel, Historical fiction
- United Kingdom, United States
- Fiction - Trials, litigation, William Harrison Ainsworth, Imposters, Housekeepers, London.
5 set 2023 · The Fraud is Zadie’s first journey into historical fiction, basing her novel on a 19th-century scandal in England where an ordinary butcher claimed to be the presumed-dead heir to the Tichbourne fortune – Sir Roger Tichbourne.
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31 ago 2023 · The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka...
7 dic 2023 · Who is the fraud of the title? Is it “The Claimant,” a butcher passing himself off as a baronet? Ainsworth, the minor novelist stealing his best ideas from the illustrator Cruikshank? Dickens, who likes “fictional people,” “those he can control” more than the “chaos” of “real life?”
5 set 2023 · Inspired by a real trial in Victorian England, Zadie Smith’s first historical novel, brilliantly ‘written in spite of her hesitations,’ crackles with details and characters that bring to life issues of power, race, and the notion of authenticity.”. — Boston Globe, “Here are 20 books we’re excited to read this fall”.
