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Collection:
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Good Reading |
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Call Number:
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F |
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Author:
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Smith, Zadie, |
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Title:
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The fraud |
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Summary, etc. note:
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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 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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International Standard Book Number:
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9780525558972 |
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(hardcover) |
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(ebook) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780525558965 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Classification number:
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PR6069.M59 |
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Edition number:
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23/eng/20230519 |
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Classification number:
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823/.914 |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Zadie Smith. |
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Place of publication:
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New York , NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Penguin Random House |
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Date of publication:
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2023 |
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Projected publication date:
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2309 |
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New York : |
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Penguin Press, |
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2023. |
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Extent:
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451 pages |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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computer |
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rdacarrier |
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online resource |
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cr |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B&T 9/15/23 |
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Purchase price:
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29.00 |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Subject:
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Fraudulence |
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Subject:
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Britain |
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Subject:
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Jamaica |
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Subject:
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Historical |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Novels. |
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Main entry heading:
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Smith, Zadie. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : Penguin Press, 2023 |
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Display text:
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Print version: |
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Title:
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Fraud |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2023022290 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780525558965 |
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acquire |
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ecip ebook |
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policy default |
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ecip ebook 2023-05-23 |
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LC online resource |
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2023-05-23 |
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