Everything you need to understand or teach The Fraud by Zadie Smith.
Zadie Smith's The Fraud follows the reaction of the English public to the Tichborne trial, a famous case of fraud, through the eyes of a woman named Eliza Touchet. The novel takes place between England and Jamaica over the course of a roughly fifty-year period between 1830 and 1880, detailing the lives of Eliza, her cousin William, and the various figures involved in the notorious Tichborne case. As the novel chronicles this forgotten corner of history, it engages in themes of gender, race, class, truth, and memory.
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