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An edition of Fraud (2023)

Fraud

A Novel

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Truth and justice tested by a 19th-century author and his cousin, and a fraudulent pretender and his manumitted witness.

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First Sentence

"A filthy boy stood on the doorstep."

Table of Contents

Volume One
1. A Very Large Hole
Page 3
2. A Late Ainsworth
Page 6
3. A New Spirit of the Age
Page 9
4. The Lady of the House
Page 11
5. Liking William
Page 15
6. The Mystery of Pain
Page 19
7. The Flitch of Bacon
Page 22
8. The Ainsworth Sisters
Page 26
9. ‘I’m a writer’
Page 28
10. ‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’
Page 32
11. A Hundred Pounds a Year
Page 35
12. Visiting Elm Lodge, Spring 1830
Page 39
13. Taking the Waters at Kilburn Wells
Page 41
14. Grace
Page 44
15. Nine Months
Page 47
16. A Queer Reversal
Page 49
17. Visiting Chesterfield
Page 52
18. Talking ‘Cant’ in Chesterfield
Page 54
Volume Two
1. Moving Again
Page 61
2. Debating Tichborne
Page 63
3. Still Debating Tichborne
Page 68
4. Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex
Page 73
5. Another Package
Page 75
6. Cuckfield Park
Page 78
7. ‘I do not advise you to enter upon a literary career’
Page 80
8. Jamaica, in Fiction
Page 82
9. Hilary St. Ives, 1869
Page 83
10. St. Lawrence’s Fair
Page 89
11. ‘These are our riches’
Page 91
12. Jamaica, in Reality
Page 97
13. Debating Jamaica
Page 101
14. Agreeing to Disagree
Page 104
15. A Tichborne Addendum
Page 109
16. Chapman Sees a Ghost
Page 112
17. Visiting Gilbert
Page 115
18. A Gift for Joy, 1832
Page 118
19. A Ladies’ Outing, 1830
Page 125
20. Bow Bridge House
Page 129
21. A Ladies’ Outing, 1870
Page 132
22. Horsham
Page 134
23. ‘Sir Roger’
Page 136
24. Andrew Bogle
Page 141
25. The Claimant
Page 144
Volume Three
1. Kensal Lodge, July 1834
Page 149
2. The First Insatiable
Page 153
3. The View from the Stairs
Page 156
4. The Wages of Sin
Page 159
5. Compensations
Page 162
6. Dickens is Dead!
Page 166
7. Taking the Train
Page 169
8. The Ethiopians
Page 172
9. The Lawyer Atkinson Makes His Recommendation
Page 176
10. Distaff
Page 180
11. What Can We Know of Other People?
Page 181
12. Consider Bogle!
Page 184
13. Visiting the Lady Marguerite Gardiner Blessington, Spring 1836
Page 186
14. Weightier Matters
Page 189
15. Conversations of Lord Byron
Page 193
16. Triangular Arrangements
Page 195
17. On Cruelty
Page 199
18. On Mobility
Page 204
19. Le Monde Bouleversé
Page 206
Volume Four
1. The Artist & The Author
Page 213
2. Contemporary Fiction
Page 218
3. The Court of Common Pleas, 1th May 1871
Page 221
4. Dramatis Personae
Page 222
5. The Uses of Improvisation
Page 226
6. Comedy in the Court
Page 228
7. Negative Capability
Page 231
8. Are You Arthur Orton?
Page 232
9. Not Her Pen
Page 235
10. What is Real?
Page 238
11. All is Change
Page 240
12. A Memory
Page 242
13. All Souls
Page 244
14. A Single Soul
Page 247
15. Adjourned Until November!
Page 249
16. An Amusing Piece in Punch
Page 252
Volume Five
1. London Daily News, Friday 10th November 1871
Page 254
2. Walking to Willesden
Page 262
3. Jack Sheppard,
Page 1838
4. The ‘Newgate Controversy’
Page 267
5. Like Two Peas in a Bushel
Page 271
6. Forgiveness in Stereoscope, 1845
Page 276
7. At the Dolly Shop
Page 281
8. No One to Send
Page 288
9. Believing Bogle
Page 293
10. All is Lost!
Page 295
11. A Proposal
Page 297
12. Andrew & Henry & Eliza
Page 298
13. A Public Spectacle
Page 302
14. A History of Bogle
Page 305
Volume Six
1. On Hope
Page 313
2. Correction
Page 317
3. Nonesuch Bogle & Mulatto Roger
Page 322
4. ‘im who speak sense here nah speak true’
Page 326
5. A Diner
Page 329
6. The Great Storm
Page 332
7. Inheritance
Page 333
8. Myra
Page 336
9. Barren
Page 339
10. ‘Myra’s Andrew’
Page 340
11. The Final Return
Page 342
12. For Love & Profit
Page 344
13. Mr Edward Tichborne
Page 348
14. Wild Talk
Page 350
15. Pragmatism
Page 353
16. Lineage
Page 354
17. Staying Overnight at the Brown Hen
Page 365
18. A Very Big House
Page 358
19. A Young Negro Archer
Page 361
20. The Order of Things
Page 365
21. In the Event of Universal War
Page 366
22. Bitter Harvests
Page 371
23. Automaton
Page 373
24. Cato Street
Page 374
25. Thistlewood! Wedderburn!
Page 378
26. The Eternal Return of Johanna
Page 379
27. The Prophetic Circular Dream of Little Johanna
Page 380
28. Bahama Grass, 1826
Page 382
29. Taken Off the Country
Page 384
30. A European Honeymoon
Page 386
Volume Seven
1. D is for Doughty
Page 391
2. Upton Park, Poole
Page 393
3. The Christmas Uprising, 1831
Page 394
4. Reform, 1834
Page 398
5. Miss Elizabeth
Page 399
6. Black Bogle
Page 400
7. Who am I, Really?
Page 401
8. ‘slavery’
Page 402
9. Adding Up & Taking Away
Page 405
10. Tichborne Park
Page 406
11. Love or Property?
Page 408
12. Patronage, 1853
Page 410
13. Surety
Page 412
14. Jane Fisher
Page 413
15. Saltwater
Page 414
16. Johanna’s Warning
Page 415
17. Lady Mabella de Tichborne’s Warning
Page 416
18. What is Real?
Page 418
19. The Door Opens Inward
Page 420
Volume Eight
1. Appeals to the Public, 1873
Page 425
2. Freedom!
Page 430
3. Magnetism
Page 436
4. A Public Literary Dinner, Manchester Town Hall, 12th January 1838
Page 438
5. Doubly Blessed
Page 441
6. Summer 1872
Page 444
7. Manchester Free Trade Hall
Page 446
8. The Facade
Page 449
9. Visiting the Ainsworth Girls, 28th October 1838
Page 451
10. The World of Sentiment
Page 453
11. Cotton & Confidence
Page 455
12. What If?
Page 460
13. Regina vs Castro, 23rd April 1873
Page 462
14. A Question of Length
Page 465
15. The Twelfth Messenger
Page 466
16. Only Half the Story
Page 471
17. A Celebratory Party at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie Street, 12th December 1840
Page 475
18. The first page of The Tower of London
Page 485
19. A Theory of Truth
Page 487
20. The Mysteries of Bogle & Luie
Page 490
21. Open Land
Page 494
22. Grace
Page 495
23. What Can We Know of Other People?
Page 498
24. An Earlier Bogle Mystery, 1840
Page 502
25. ‘The great problem is at length solved’, 1844
Page 505
26. Sink or Swim
Page 510
27. Offstage
Page 513
28. Theory
Page 517
29. Infinity, 1851
Page 518
30. Fire Sale, 1852
Page 522
31. The Brighton Years, 1853–67
Page 525
32. Grand Unions
Page 527
33. A Trip to Manchester, Pancake Day 1863
Page 530
34. Kenealy Sums Up, December 1873
Page 535
35. No Questions
Page 537
36. A Dark Secret
Page 541
37. The End
Page 547
38. Fools & Fanatics
Page 550
39. The Great Indignation Meeting!
Page 553
40. After Hackney Downs, 11th December
Page 1875
41. A Pauper’s Burial, 1877
Page 566
42. A Coincidence on a Train
Page 568
43. Up & Away
Page 570
Afterword
Page 576
Acknowledgments
Page 579
About the Author
Page 581

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New York
Copyright Date
2023

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Library of Congress
PR6069.M59

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
577
Number of pages
577
Weight
596 grams

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OL46803287M
ISBN 13
9780593792643

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OL34025531W

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