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The ultimate readers-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over. 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 dont like true crime,

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Author

Katsoulis, Melissa

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781602397941

Category

history

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.32 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14