The Thirteenth Tale (edit title)

Roopa Baliga edited the characters of The Thirteenth Tale 2 days ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Margaret Lea
• Added a character: Vida Winters
• Added a character: Adeline March
• Added a character: Emmeline March

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to change the title of The Thirteenth Tale Saturday, November 7 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to combine 26 books, including The Thirteenth Tale, Saturday, November 7 2009.

Kelly M changed the title of The Thirteenth Tale Friday, November 6 2009.

Kelly M submitted a request to combine 26 books, including The Thirteenth Tale, Friday, November 6 2009.

Marcia G edited the books that influenced this book of The Thirteenth Tale Friday, October 23 2009.

• Added Jane Eyre
• Added Wuthering Heights

Carol G edited the quotations of The Thirteenth Tale Thursday, September 3 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters even–caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you."”Margaret (narrator)

Shelfari edited the description of The Thirteenth Tale Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Thirteenth Tale Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Diane Setterfield: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Thirteenth Tale Friday, July 17 2009.

• It was November.