The Thirteenth Tale

…a mistress of the craft of storytelling.”The GuardianDiane 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.’

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

图书标签:小说英文原版英国文学英国Fiction外国文学Mystery英文

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.

读后感

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...  

“从前有一栋闹鬼的房子……” “从前有一座图书馆……” “从前有一对双胞胎……” 当一个成功的小说家连续变换了三个开头才挽留住她的聆听者，这的确是个不同寻常的场景。维达•温特是一位浑身是谜的畅销书作家，关于她的过去，由她本人流传出的无数个版本...  

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用户评价

2013.4.6 09年开始有事没事的看。文笔不错，但是意识流似的故事进展缓慢，像极了肚子里没货的作家的拖延术。但是遣词用句，支线编织又是正点科班出身的架子，因为story这词几乎被所有MFA的学生视若珍宝。故事有些地方让人动容，也有不少地方让人毛骨悚然。归根结底，还是有点稚嫩，比如Aurelius这个人物，以及一些对白，总觉得不伦不类，虽然被写得小心翼翼。对我来说，读完这本09年就开始看的书，最后的乐趣也仅在填坑读完而已了。

書中的故事也算是自圓其說了，雖然有的情節的進展稍顯生硬，設計痕跡太過，但前面的伏筆到後面都用得上這點已經令我覺得okay了。說到底，這是一個關於家族畸形愛戀的故事。三星半吧

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~

第一遍读完：rather dry & dreary 第二遍读完：haunting

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。