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Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds book cover by Melissa Katsoulis
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Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds

by Melissa Katsoulis

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Hardcover · 336 pages Skyhorse · 2009

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Literary Hoaxes

When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers. The path from his mischievous stunt to more serious tricksters like the fake Howard Hughes “autobiography” by Clifford Irving, Oprah-duper James Frey, takes in every sort of writer: from the religious zealot to the bored student, via the vengeful academic and the out-and-out joker.

But whether hoaxing for fame, money, politics, or simple amusement, each perpetrator represents something unique about why we write. Their stories speak volumes about how reading, writing, and publishing have grown out of the fine and private places of the past into big-business, TV-book-club-led mass-marketplaces which, some would say, are ripe for the ripping.

For the first time, the complete history of this fascinating sub-genre of world literature is revealed. Suitable for bookworms of all ages and persuasions, this is true crime for people who don’t like true crime, and literary history for the historically illiterate. A treat to read right through or to dip into, it will make you think twice next time you slip between the covers of an author you don’t know . . .

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Publisher
Skyhorse
Author
Melissa Katsoulis
Format
Hardcover
Published
Nov 1, 2009
ISBN-13
9781602397941
ISBN-10
1602397945
Pages
336
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