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The Penguin Book of Lies

Door Philip Kerr

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#378063-UA1
Titel
The Penguin Book of Lies
Auteur
Kerr, Philip
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Viking Adult
Jaar van uitgave
1990
ISBN10
0670825603
ISBN13
9780670825608
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
"As this marvelous anthology of the world's greatest lies attests, lying is an endlessly fascinating subject. People have been lying for as long as they've been talking, which is why it's hard to repress a sneaking admiration for liars on a grand scale. In The Penguin Book of Lies, Philip Kerr has culled the most outrageous tall tales from twenty-five centuries of deceit, from the Bible to Casanova through Nietzsche and Nixon. Interspersed throughout are reflections on the subject from some of history's most profound thinkers and moralists, who have come up with a thousand and one different ways of classifying lies and castigating liars. Theoreticians such as Machiavelli and Swift, Freud and Saint Augustine can, on the other hand, teach practitioners a great deal about how and when to... (Lees verder) lie most effectively. This compendium of mendacity runs the gamut from Cicero on how to deceive a judge to Ferdinand Gregorius on the not-so-miraculous restoration of Lucrezia Borgia's virginity. How Richard III obtained his hump is followed by Samuel Pepys on lying to his wife and the story of mary Tofts of Godalming, who claimed in 1726 to have given birth to twenty rabbits, all in a single month. After Oscar Wilde's lament on the decay of lying, one finds an excerpt from Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Prince Youssopov's "How I Killed Rasputin," John Dean on taking a lie-detector test, and Shere Hite on faking orgasms. The above is but a sampling of the wealth of Kerr's offerings. Two and a half millennia have yielded some whoppers, and The Penguin Book of Lies contains the best of them." --
Pagina's
543
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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