| 词条 | The Observations |
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| name = The Observations | image = File:TheObservations.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Jane Harris | illustrator = | cover_artist = Ghost (design) Jeff Cottenden (photography) | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Faber & Faber | release_date = 06 Apr 2006 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 432 | isbn = 0-571-22335-4 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Observations, is the debut novel by British author Jane Harris published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007.[1] It was Waterstones book of the month and Faber & Faber's lead debut fiction title for spring 2006 (with its biggest ever initial print run for a first book).[2] Plot introductionSet in Scotland in 1863, it's narrated by the lively, sharp Bessy Buckley, who leaves her murky past in Glasgow and stumbles into a job as a maid at Castle Haivers, a large house outside Edinburgh. Arabella, her mistress, encourages Bessy to write her thoughts and experiences in a journal. She also subjects Bessy to odd experiments, but Bessy goes along with them because she is flattered by the attention and quickly grows attached to her mistress. Things change when Bessy snoops in Arabella's locked desk and discovers the book Arabella has been writing, The Observations, a study of the "habits and nature of the Domestic Class." Bessy is incensed to read criticisms of herself in the account, and also learns of Arabella's affection for one of her predecessors, a girl who died under mysterious circumstances. Bessy concocts a revenge that ends up having consequences far more lasting than she ever envisioned … Reception
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PublicationIt was published in the UK by Faber and Faber, in the US by Viking Press, and in Australia/New Zealand by Allen & Unwin. It has been published in the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Germany, Norway, Poland, France, Portugal, Sweden and Brazil. It is due to be published in Israel, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Croatia, Russia, Turkey.. An audiobook version is available, narrated by the author. There is also a Danish audiobook version. References1. ^BAILEYS Women's Prize for Fiction » 2007 Retrieved 2016-07-15. 2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/mar/19/fiction.features4 'Already compared with Sarah Waters, debut novelist Jane Harris will soon be everywhere, from Waterstones to Tesco', Liz Hoggard, The Observer, Sunday 19 March 2006] Retrieved 2016-07-15. 3. ^[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jane-harris/the-observations/ In her entertaining debut, a British writer hands the job of storytelling to a saucily streetwise servant in Victorian Scotland.] Retrieved 2-16-07-15. 4. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-observations-by-jane-harris-359702.html The Observations by Jane Harris, Watching me, watching you - aha!, The Independent, Saturday 22 April 2006] Retrieved 2016-07-15. 5. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview22 "Dear God, it was a gobaloon! Joanna Briscoe enjoys the raucous heroine of a Victorian pastiche", The Guardian, Saturday 15 April 2006] Retrieved 2016-07-16. External links
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