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Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents ...
The Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery is the premier library collection in the world that is dedicated entirely to the subject of textual fakery and imposture. The collection totals nearly two thousand rare books and manuscripts and is kept at the Special Collections Department of Johns Hopkins University ’s ...
M. Jose E. Marco; Władysław Machejek; James Macpherson; Ern Malley hoax; Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora; Gina Marks; Mathilde Lefebvre letter
Fake memoirs form a category of literary forgery in which a wholly or partially fabricated autobiography, memoir or journal of an individual is presented as fact. In some cases, the purported author of the work is also a fabrication.
Epistle to the Alexandrians — an unknown text derided as a forgery in a 7th-century manuscript; Epistle to the Laodiceans — a lost letter of Saint Paul, often "rediscovered" by forgers; Essene Gospel of Peace — a text which claims, among other things, that Jesus was a vegetarian; Gospel of Josephus — a forgery created to raise publicity ...
The handwriting of the Queen and Southampton did not at all resemble authentic examples. Words appearing in the forgeries (upset, for example) were not used in Shakespeare's time, or were used in a different sense than that of the papers. [33] The second blow came two days later, on 2 April, with the failure of Vortigern at Drury Lane Theatre ...
Luigi Mangione, who authorities accuse of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrote in a notebook that he considered bombing Manhattan to carry out the killing but did not ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...