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Literary Forgeries

Type: Preset list created by JBD1

Description: Books related to or concerned with literary forgeries (based on http://www.bibliopath.com/forgebib.html, with additions)

Members: 3 participating members (show all)

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1
The Mormon Murders
by Steven Naifeh
222 members, 1 review
3.29 stars (3.29 stars)

Lists: aulsmith, JBD1

Score: 2

2
The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession
by Charlie Lovett
891 members, 69 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

3
Chatterton
by Peter Ackroyd
721 members, 14 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

4
The Lambs of London
by Peter Ackroyd
715 members, 33 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

5
The Tragedy of Arthur
by Arthur Phillips
463 members, 54 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

7
The Poet and the Murderer
by Simon Worrall
322 members, 12 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

8
Selling Hitler
by Robert Harris
171 members, 5 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

9
The Scholar Adventurers
by Richard D. Altick
123 members, 4 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

10
A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
by Robert Lindsey
103 members, 1 review
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

11
Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
by Linda Sillitoe
96 members, 2 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

12
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by Lee Israel
82 members, 7 reviews
3.12 stars (3.12 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

13
The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion
by Magdalen King-Hall
75 members, 2 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

14
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
by Melissa Katsoulis
74 members, 5 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

15
Fake? The Art of Deception
by Mark Jones
71 members, 2 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

16
The Hoax
by Clifford Irving
66 members, 3 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: rhbouchard

Score: 1

17
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
by Ingrid D. Rowland
60 members, 2 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

18
Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile
by A. S. W. Rosenbach
56 members, 1 review
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

19
The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly
by Doug Stewart
52 members, 4 reviews
3.42 stars (3.42 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

21
Books and bookmen
by Andrew Lang
41 members, 1 review
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

22
Bland Beginning
by Julian Symons
41 members, 1 review
2.8 stars (2.8 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

24
The Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
by Nick Groom
35 members, 0 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

29
Great Forgers and Famous Fakes
by Charles Hamilton
31 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

30
Victims : the LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
by Richard E. Turley, Jr.
28 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

32
Faking Literature
by K. K. Ruthven
24 members, 0 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

36
Almanac of American Letters
by Randy F. Nelson
22 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

38
Williamsburg Forgeries
by John Ballinger
21 members, 1 review
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

41
Books and book-collectors
by John Carter
19 members, 0 reviews
2.25 stars (2.25 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

43
The Spectra Hoax
by William Jay Smith
18 members, 2 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

44
Detecting Forgery: Forensic Investigation of Documents
by Joe Nickell
17 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

45
The great Shakespeare forgery
by Bernard D. N. Grebanier
15 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

46
Scribblers & scoundrels
by Charles Hamilton
14 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

49
This Solemn Mockery
by John Whitehead
12 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

53
The Prince of Forgers
by Henry Leonard Bordier
11 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

54
Faking it: Art and the politics of forgery
by Ian Haywood
9 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

59
Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal
by Jeffrey Kahan
8 members, 1 review
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

62
Tracking the White Salamander
by Jerald Tanner
7 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

68
The Anatomy of a Literary Hoax
by Sidney E. Berger
5 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

69
The Fortsas Bibliohoax
by Walter Klinefelter
5 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

70
The Fourth Forger: William Ireland and the Shakespeare Papers
by John Mair
5 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

83
Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend
by James Soderholm
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

86
Literary forgeries
by James Anson Farrer
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

88
Thomas J. Wise : Centenary Studies
by William B. Todd
4 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

93
Histoire de la bibliothèque du comte de Fortsas
by Vincent Puente
3 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

96
A Life of Thomas Chatterton
by Edward H. Meyerstein
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

98
The Plot of Bartolome Pages
by W. Thomas Taylor
3 members, 0 reviews

Lists: JBD1

Score: 1

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Started by: JBD1 (February 2013)

Type: Unnumbered

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