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Fortune and men's eyes
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Dewey Ganzel |
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 tw… |
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Sleuthing C.S. Lewis
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Kathryn Ann Lindskoog |
"Kathryn Lindskoog, of whom C. S. Lewis said that she knows his work better than anyone, has some serious questions for the guardians of the gates of the C. S. Lewis estate. Her careful, meticulous r… |
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The Sons of Clovis
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David Brooks - undifferentiated |
The Sons of Clovis is a tour de force. It begins with the Ern Malley affair, establishing previously unrecognised connections between the Australian scene and French Symboliste poetry, before embarki… |
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A Life in Pieces
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Blake Eskin |
"In 1997, Binjamin Wilkomirski arrived in New York to read from his prize-winning book Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, his memoir of an early childhood lost to the concentration camps at … |
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The Hoax
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Clifford Irving |
The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax of our time--his "autobiography" of Howard Hughes--was published in Great Britain in 1997, where it b… |
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The spinster & the prophet
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A. B. McKillop |
"Did H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, plagiarize the book that made his fortune?" "Published in 1920 at the peak of his career, the Outline of History was a sweeping chr… |
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Scandal Nation
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Kathryn Temple |
"Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy, forgery, and copyright violation played a crucial role in the formation of British identity. Britain's expa… |
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The Literary and Historical Legacy of Iolo Morganwg, 1826-1926 (University of Wales Press - Iolo Mo…
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Marion Loffler |
"This volume analyses the public reception and criticism of the writings of Iolo Morganwg during the long nineteenth century, considers the development of his ideas about the Eisteddfod and the Gorse… |
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Selling Hitler
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Harris, Robert |
"The extraordinary story of the con job of the century-- the faking of the Hitler "diaries"--Jacket. |
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