The Doyle Diary: the Last Great Investigation Into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle
Author: Michael (ed.) Baker
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 91
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Author: Michael (ed.) Baker
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 91
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9780207136689
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Published: 1978
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Corinne F. Gerwe
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1892941481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the link between intense childhood experiences, persistent behaviors and chronic addiction; outlines a novel treatment methodology. Elegant and heart-wrenching.
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1555979823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLonglisted 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.
Author: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1443806498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two "serious" poems ("Hero and Leander" and "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies") so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg," showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.
Author: Dalma Kalogjera-Sackellares
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-05-17
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1462853633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is an enjoyable read, in particular on account of its fascinating insights. Whether or not Sherlock Holmes was left-handed, Dallam Kalogjera-Sackellares has reinforced the importance of the no dominant hemisphere of the human brain in driving intelligence and creativity, tying together the clues in a way that the good detective would be proud of.
Author: Ronald Burt De Waal
Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 632
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