The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield's 'The Thirteenth Tale' is a recognized masterpiece of modern English prose, a book that introduced the 'neo-gothic' genre to the general public and made Anglo-American critics talk about the return of the golden age of the British novel, associated with the names of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and Daphne du Maurier. The debut novel of a modest teacher, whose rights were bought for unprecedented money for a beginning author (£800,000 for the British edition, one million dollars for the American), outsold the bestsellers of recent years, was instantly translated into several dozen languages, and was honored by reviewers with the honorary title of the 'new 'Jane Eyre''.
Margaret Lea works in her father's antiquarian bookshop. She prefers Dickens and the Brontë sisters to contemporary literature. Margaret is all the more surprised when she receives an offer from the most famous writer of our days, Vida Winter, to become her biographer. For Miss Winter is famous not less for her books than for never having told a single interviewer a word of truth. And now, in front of Margaret, who finds herself within the walls of a gloomy mansion populated with ghosts of the past, unfolds, in the literal sense of the word, a gothic tale of twin sisters, which strangely echoes her own personal history and gradually leads to the unraveling of a mystery that has driven many generations of readers mad - the mystery of 'The Thirteenth Tale'.
Author:
Author:Setterfield D.
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Fiction
Dimensions:
Dimensions:18x11x3.5 cm
Series:
Series:Alphabet-classic (pocket-book)
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-05094-5
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