The Thirteenth Tale

出版者:Atria Books

作者:Diane Setterfield

页数:416

出版时间:2006-09-12

价格:GBP 16.06

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780743298025

具体描述

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.

作者简介

…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.’

读后感

用了两个整整晚上读这本朋友推荐的中文书，连续读，连续，连上班的一天，都似乎在想：双胞胎姐妹之间，究竟有一种什么样的不同凡响的情素？ 昨天读的时候，很兴奋，很紧张，尤其是解说AS身世的时候，故事很紧。 女人的书，常常能将故事讲得有血有肉；但《风之影》很丰满，有...  

《第十三个故事》带给我一段奇妙的阅读过程，非常奇妙，它和现实毫无关系，是一种纯粹的阅读沉迷，但它的故事空间和吸力又比较庞大，所以造成一种和白天的现实生活（我通畅只在晚上看书）相平行（完全没有交集且距离很遥远），甚至相对抗的力量，而这次我一改往常的稳扎现实世...  

这部小说很取巧的视角让人很容易就进入作者的世界 在书外，是读者和作者 在书里，也是读者和作者 最终促使我买下这本书的原因是 中间的一句话： “在中学的时候学到的查理大帝，想到小时候阅读到的查理大帝，这个查理大帝 是我的查理大帝吗？ 两个世界碰撞在一起。。。” 一下...  

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...  

每次偷得半日闲暇读小说对我而言,堪比与天人交战,因为心里不断计算着这半小时可以背出单词的数量。 可《第十三个故事》确实好看，从起始第一页就让人直想手不释卷地一口气读完。 纵观此书,我简直铁口直断认定Diane setterfield是拿"第十三个故事"向勃朗特姐妹致敬。不过书中...  

用户评价

一则不疾不徐，娓娓道来的故事。虽然结尾略欠火候，但是文字的优美和刻画的细腻远远超过故事本身的魅力。好多次我的眼光曾在一些精美绝伦的段落上久久流连，不愿离开，感叹原来英语是这么美丽的一种语言…… 　　 　　书中两个女主角都爱书如痴，想象中作者自己一定也是个爱书之人。

开头气氛营造的好，后面就水了

又是一本未完成。。。

一则不疾不徐，娓娓道来的故事。虽然结尾略欠火候，但是文字的优美和刻画的细腻远远超过故事本身的魅力。好多次我的眼光曾在一些精美绝伦的段落上久久流连，不愿离开，感叹原来英语是这么美丽的一种语言…… 　　 　　书中两个女主角都爱书如痴，想象中作者自己一定也是个爱书之人。

Ain't sure why. Just like it so very much.