Fortune and men's eyes

By Dewey Ganzel

Subjects: Scholars, Literary forgeries and mystifications, Biography, Forgeries, Editors, Conspiracies, Collier, History

Description: In 1850 John Payne Collier was acclaimed as a man of prodigious learning. A decade later, he was almost universally despised, accused of outrageous crimes and deceptions, condemned to live another twenty years in disgrace and unremitting self-recrimination. -- from first chapter.