Rumours and Hoaxes.

(Anthology.) HAWORTH (Peter, Editor)

Rumours and Hoaxes.

Classic Tales of Fraud and Deception.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. xxii, 282, crown 8vo, original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip with lettering and border stamped in red, rouch of fading at head of backstrip, edges and endpapers faintly spotted, dustjacket a little chipped and nicked with some light creasing, contemporary repricing sticker to front, very good

Publication Details: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1928

Notes: The selection takes the broad historical view adumbrated in Haworth's Introduction, which refers to Shakespeare and the Great War as well as to Classical sources; the texts begin with Homer and end with George Meredith - along the way we encounter Poe, Dickens, et al.

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