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The Century of Deception - The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England (Hardcover)
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The Century of Deception - The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England (Hardcover)
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In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man
would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre.
Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the
trick, the performer didn't. Over the following decades, elaborate
jokes and fanciful tales would continue to bamboozle people across
England. In The Century of Deception, magician and historian Ian
Keable tells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century
hoaxes and those who were duped by them. The English public were
hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of rapping
ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman
in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not
only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities
such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, they
also inflamed concerns about 'English credulity'. 'Fake news',
'going viral' and 'social media' may be modern terms, but as this
entertaining, eye-opening book shows, these concepts have been with
us for centuries.
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