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The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History


11 Legendary Literary Hoaxes

The archive is replete with “discovered” literature whose origin was the mind of the huckster who claimed to have found it—a shadow tradition ...

Top 10 literary hoaxes | Books | The Guardian

Top 10 literary hoaxes · 1. Jonathan Swift – Predictions for the Year 1708 (1708) · 2. James MacPherson – The Works of Ossian (1765) · 3. Edgar ...

Some of Our Favorite Literary Hoaxes - The New York Times

Some of Our Favorite Literary Hoaxes · Clifford Irving, 'The Autobiography of Howard Hughes' · James Frey, 'A Million Little Pieces' · Stephen ...

The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History - Barnes & Noble

A truly worthy hoax can be appreciated for its genius once enough time has passed. Here are eight literary hoaxes that were so successful, you simply have to ...

History's Most Famous Literary Hoaxes

Thirty years after the Hitler Diaries were exposed as a fraud, here's a look back at some of history's other famous fictions.

8 of the Most Infamous Literary Hoaxes - Book Riot

They take several forms. Some are forgeries that attribute the writers' words to more famous authors. Others claim the work is much older than ...

The 10 Most Infamous Literary Hoaxes of All Time

One of the most recent examples of literary hoax is Oprah's former favourite “memoir,” A Million Little Pieces. Written by James Frey, the book ...

Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship | The New Yorker

Hoaxes have played a role in literary history. Probably the most famous hoax in English literature is an epic cycle about a warrior named ...

Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Famous Literary Hoaxes ...

The two had apparently created The English Mercurie as a literary game. Though the work is widely known to be fake, it's still mistakenly taken for a factual ...

Literary Hoaxes: when fun turns into irritation. - Shaharee Vyaas

So what sets the literary hoax separate from the rest of fiction? The oldest hoaxes are those who falsely attribute a certain text to an ...

Famous Literary Hoaxes (Part Three) - Books Tell You Why

Not all forgeries are created equal, and the Hitler diaries are a classic example. The diary of Adolf Hitler was supposedly recovered from an ...

List of hoaxes - Wikipedia

Exposure hoaxes · The Atlanta Nights hoax novel. · The practice of growing bonsai kittens in jars. · The British television series Brass Eye, which encouraged ...

Top 20 Literary Hoaxes - The Busybody

Debunked by Lorenzo Valla in 1440. The most famous forgery in European history, describing Constantine being cured by Pope Sylvester I, and then ...

10 Successful Books Later Revealed To Be A Hoax - Listverse

10 Naked Came The Stranger · 9 I, Libertine · 8 My Own Sweet Time · 7 The Hand That Signed The Paper · 6 The Diamond Club · 5 The Autobiography Of ...

Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud - LiteratureLust.com

Literary hoaxes occur more often than you'd think · Jonathon Swift must have wanted to discredit astronomer, John Partridge. · Edgar Allan Poe ...

A short history of literary hoaxes | Books | The Guardian

My Life as a Fake turns into fiction one of the great hoaxes of literary history. In 1944 the Australian poetry editor Max Harris published ...

The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History - Melisende's Library

The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History ... Whether or not you enjoy a good hoax depends on your perspective; put simply, if you're the ...

When Creativity Isn't Appreciated: Literary Hoaxes

The conundrum of a literary hoax is that you must be discovered in order to become famous for perpetrating it. That seems to be the less fun ...

Literary Hoaxes

The Voynich Manuscript (1500s). The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious book consisting of pages of hand-written text and crudely drawn illustrations that depict ...

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