Author: Magdalen King-HallPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765, by Cleone Knox, Edited by Her Kinsman, Alexander Blacker Kerr
Author: Magdalen King-HallThe Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765
Author: Magdalen King-HallCanadian Bookman
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
The New Yorker
Author: Harold Wallace RossPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
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Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765
Author: Magdalen King-HallPublisher:
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Category : Debutantes
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An imaginary diary of a young Englishwoman records her broken romance in Ireland and her adventures on a Grand Tour.
Bunk
Author: Kevin YoungPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
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