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When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.
All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.
The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.
As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.
Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.
…a mistress of the craft of storytelling.”
The Guardian
Diane Setterfield is a British author. Her bestselling novel, The Thirteenth Tale (2006) was published in 38 countries worldwide and has sold more than three million copies. It was number one in the New York Times hardback fiction list for three weeks and is enjoyed as much for being ‘a love letter to reading’ as for its mystery and style. Her second novel, Bellman & Black (2013 is a genre-defying tale of rooks and Victorian retail. January 2019 sees the publication of her new title, Once Upon a River, which has been called 'bewitching' and 'enchanting'.
Born in Englefield, Berkshire in 1964, Diane spent most of her childhood in the nearby village of Theale. After schooldays at Theale Green, Diane studied French Literature at the University of Bristol. Her PhD was on autobiographical structures in André Gide’s early fiction. She taught English at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie and the Ecole nationale supérieure de Chimie, both in Mulhouse, France, and later lectured in French at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She left academia in the late 1990s to pursue writing.
The Thirteenth Tale was acquired by Heyday Films and adapted for television by the award-winning playwright and scriptwriter, Christopher Hampton. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Olivia Colman, it was filmed in 2013 in North Yorkshire for BBC2. The TV rights to Once Upon a River have even sold to Kudos (Broadchurch, Spooks, Grantchester).
Diane Setterfield has been published in over forty countries.
Diane lives in Oxford, in the UK. When not writing she reads widely, and when not actually reading she is usually talking or thinking about reading. She is, she says, ‘a reader first, a writer second.’
1/10/2008 - 極富追看性, 兩天看完.
评分Great story!
评分完全不知道怎么评价这本书,看的时候停不下来,但看完之后也没有意犹未尽的感觉。有点莫名其妙的百合恋,不过写得比everything I never told you里的诡异基情好多了~结局完全没猜出来,一直以为是双重人格之类的,都没注意到大家一直在说ghost,ghost,ghost…真是成功地把自己写成了subplot……完全搞不懂作者对简爱的感情,开始大家都很爱,图书馆里有一坨,连放baby的袋子里都是,然后医生突然出现,说你就是看多了这种书神经了,还是多看看福尔摩斯吧,哈哈~~~说得我都想看福尔摩斯了。总的来说这是一本让人想看更多书的书,所以还是不错的~
评分作者勃朗特姐妹看多了吧,笔下一个正常人都没有。
评分Ain't sure why. Just like it so very much.
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评分在豆瓣的外国文学小组,有一个长期位于前三位的帖子,它说,“大家都来说说是哪本书让你掉进外国文学这个坑里的”。每一个加入小组的人都乐于给出自己简单的答案,哪怕已经过了很久,仍是记忆犹新的样子。我想,对于大多数人来说,大概都是这样的吧,因为遇见了一本书,喜欢上...
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评分 评分紧赶慢赶的看完了《第十三个故事》,,怎么说呢,,有点虎头蛇尾的感觉,,为什么这么说,是因为作者在前面抖的包袱太多,留的伏笔太多,作的扣太多,,当我带着这么多的疑问翻到最后一页的时候,,我有点没反应过来,,就这么结束啦。。。 如果从序言和介绍来说,这本书的...
The Thirteenth Tale pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024