The Charlatan S Boy

Author : Jonathan Rogers
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307458223

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The Charlatan's Boy by Jonathan Rogers Pdf

“I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud.” As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. With his adolescent accomplice, Floyd perpetrates a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier, such as the Ugliest Boy in the World act. It’s a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see young Grady perform as “The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp.” But what can they do? Nobody believes in feechies anymore. When Floyd stages an elaborate plot to revive Corenwalders’ belief in the mythical swamp-dwellers known as the feechiefolk, he overshoots the mark. Floyd’s Great Feechie Scare becomes widespread panic. Eager audiences become angry mobs, and in the ensuing chaos, the Charlatan’s Boy discovers the truth that has evaded him all his life—and will change his path forever.

Author : Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479813247

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The Book of Charlatans by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī Pdf

"The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt"--

Author : Pope Brock
Publisher : Crown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307409652

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Charlatan by Pope Brock Pdf

The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Children's literature, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N13626998

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The Boy's Yearly Volume for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charlatans UK (Musical group)
Publisher : Faber Music Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 0571524478

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The Best of The Charlatans by Charlatans UK (Musical group) Pdf

Features 26 of The Charlatan's best-loved songs, transcribed in guitar tab, complete with guitar chord boxes.

Author : Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth Schmeling,Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789491431906

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Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel by Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth Schmeling,Michael Paschalis Pdf

The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters are presented either as holy or as charlatans but in several cases the two categories cannot be easily distinguished from each other. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735235458

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The Fraud by Zadie Smith Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION* Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Publishers Weekly From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life, and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle meanwhile grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. He knows that the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title—captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task… Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of “other people.”

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752486956

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Fraudsters and Charlatans by Linda Stratmann Pdf

In 1817 a young woman of exotic appearance was found wandering near Bristol. She spoke in a language that no one could understand except, seemingly, a Portuguese sailor. He claimed that she was a Sumatran princess from the island of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, as she was known, became a national celebrity and lived in a grand style, entertaining many distinguished visitors. A few weeks later, however, she was exposed as Mary Baker, the daughter of a cobbler from Devonshire. Mary's deception is one of several intriguing stories of nineteenth-century fraudsters brought to light in Linda Stratmann's entertaining look at some of history's greatest rogues. From bankers who forged share certificates, ruining hundreds of small investors, to 'Louis de Rougemont' whose tales of high adventure branded him The Greatest Liar on Earth', these riveting tales of true crime expose the seedy side of life in which corruption, avarice and scandal hold sway.

Author : George Gissing
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0838618847

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Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing Pdf

Author : Leonard Diepeveen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192559364

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Modernist Fraud by Leonard Diepeveen Pdf

Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles. Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts of art scandals, such as the 1913 Armory Show, the 1910 and 1912 Postimpressionist shows, and Tender Buttons; to daily syndicated columns; to parodies and doggerel; to actual hoaxes, such as Spectra and Disumbrationism; to the literary criticism of Edith Sitwell; to the trial of Brancusi's Bird in Space; and to the contents of the magazine Blind Man, including a defense of Duchamp's Fountain, a poem by Bill Brown, and the works of, and an interview with, the bafflingly unstable painter Louis Eilshemius. In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable changes, but as an uncertain muddling and struggle with ideology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Libbey Eurotext
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0867194219

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The Summer of Love by Anonim Pdf

30th anniversary edition tells, through photos and words exactly what the psychedelic world of the Haight-Ashbury was like.

Author : David Gentilcore
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199245352

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Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy by David Gentilcore Pdf

From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians, or Health Offices (jurisdiction varied from state to state) required charlatans to submit their wares for inspection and, upon approval, pay a licence fee in order to set up a stage from which to perform and sell them. The licensing of charlatans became an administrative routine. As far as the medical magistracies were concerned, charlatans had a defineable identity, constituting a specific trade or occupation. This book studies the way charlatans were represented, by contemporaries and by historians, how they saw themselves and, most importantly, it reconstructs the place of charlatans in early modern Italy. It explores the goods and services charlatans provided, their dealings with the public and their marketing strategies. It does so from a range of perspectives: social, cultural, economic, political, geographical, biographical and, of course, medical. Charlatans are not just some curiosity on the fringes of medicine: they offered health care to an extraordinarily wide sector of the population. Moreover, from their origins in Renaissance Italy, the Italian ciarlatano was the prototype for itinerant medical practitioners throughout Europe. This book offers a different look at charlatans. It is the first to take seriously the licences issued to charlatans in the Italian states, compiling them into a 'charlatans database' of over 1,300 charlatans active throughout Italy over the course of some three centuries. In addition, it makes use of other types of archival documents, such as trial records and wills, to give the charlatans a human face, as well as a wide range of artistic and printed sources, not forgetting the output of the charlatans themselves, in the form of handbills and pamphlets.

Author : William James Rolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B681841

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Shakespeare the Boy by William James Rolfe Pdf

Author : John Mews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : PRNC:32101051781167

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The Annual Digest of All the Reported Decisions of the Superior Courts, Including a Selection from the Irish ... by John Mews Pdf