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HTML: ??Oliver Twist with a twist?Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.???The New York Times Book Review The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby??s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves??fingersmiths??for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives??Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud??s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of??passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian nove… (mais)
BookshelfMonstrosity: These novels offer gothic suspense's classic creepy atmosphere, though with somewhat different story-lines. Fingersmith takes place in Victorian England while The Thirteenth Tale is contemporary, but both emphasize books, mysteries about birth and identity, insanity, and grand houses.… (mais)
Criada em uma casa habitada por pequenos ladrões num beco escuro da Londres vitoriana, a órfã Sue Trinder é criada pela Sra. Sucksby com uma ternura incomum ao ambiente em que vive.
Queen Victoria, while accepting homosexuality in men, is said not to have been able to believe lesbians existed.
Sarah Waters sets out once again to prove Her Majesty wrong in her latest novel, Fingersmith, set - as her other two novels, Tipping the Velvet and Affinity - in Victorian London.
This is hardly niche writing - or even erotic fiction, although the few love scenes are tenderly drawn.
It is instead a tremendous read that draws the reader swiftly into the teeming life that thrived underneath the various repressions of the Victorian era.
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My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder.
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"You've heard, perhaps, of my Index? ... Has there ever been its like? A universal bibliography, and on such a theme? They say the science is a dead one amongst Englishmen. ... Fantastic, when one knows the degrees of obscurity in which my subject is shrouded. ... the authors of the texts I collect must cloak their identity in deception and anonymity. The texts themselves are stamped with every kind of false and misleading detail as to place and date of publication and impress. They are burdened with obscure titles. They must pass darkly, via secret channels, or on the wings of rumour and supposition. Consider those checks to the bibliographer's progress. Then speak to me, sir, of fantastic labour!" ... "And the Index is organized --?" "By title, by name, by date when we have it; and, mark this, sir; by species of pleasure. We have them tabled, most precisely."
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
She put the lamp upon the floor, spread the paper flat; and began to show me the words she had written, one by one.
Fiction.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.)
HTML: ??Oliver Twist with a twist?Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.???The New York Times Book Review The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby??s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves??fingersmiths??for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.
One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives??Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud??s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of??passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.
With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian nove
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