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pro vyhledávání: '"Swindlers and swindling in literature"'
Autor:
Warwick Wadlington
Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence.The model
Autor:
Virginia Loh-Hagan
Beware of scammers in this look at people who lied their way into a fortune. Don't trust anyone in the Lies and Liars Throughout History series. Each high interest title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the w
Autor:
Frantz Leander Hansen
Frantz Leander Hansen has written a brilliant book about Otto Stein (Martin Zerlang, University of Copenhagen, reviewing the Danish edition in Scandinavian Studies, University of Illinois Press, Vol. 92, No. 2). Jacob Paludan's Danish classic novel J
Autor:
Rebecca Stern
In Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England, Rebecca Stern establishes fraud as a basic component of the Victorian popular imagination, key to its intimate, as well as corporate, systems of exchange. Although Victorian England is famous fo
Autor:
Christine Seifert
History of full of liars. Not just little-white-telling liars, but big-honkin', whopper-telling liars—people who can convince us that even the most improbable, outrageous, nonsensical stories are true. And the worst part is that we'll believe it. W
Autor:
Thomas Sprecher
Im Zentrum der 2., korrigierten und überarbeiteten Auflage dieser Studie stehen die 1905 veröffentlichten Memoiren'Ein Fürst der Diebe'und'Gescheitert'des internationalen Hoteldiebs und Hochstaplers Georges Manolescu. Sie machten einen gewerbsmä