Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis, Melissa Katsoulis

Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes

Melissa Katsoulis, Melissa Katsoulis

337 pages first pub 2010 (view editions)

fiction history funny informative reflective slow-paced
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (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 p...

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