The New Cheats Of London Exposed Or The Frauds And Tricks Of The Town Laid Open To Both Sexes Being A Guard Against The Iniquitous Practices Of That Metropolis
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Born Yesterday
Author | : Stephanie Insley Hershinow |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421438836 |
Drawing on bold close readings, Born Yesterday alters the landscape of literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.
The Book of Swindles
Author | : Yingyu Zhang |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0231545649 |
This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an imposter. A eunuch kidnaps boys and consumes their "essence" in an attempt to regrow his penis. These are just a few of the entertaining and surprising tales to be found in this seventeenth-century work, said to be the earliest Chinese collection of swindle stories. The Book of Swindles, compiled by an obscure writer from southern China, presents a fascinating tableau of criminal ingenuity. The flourishing economy of the late Ming period created overnight fortunes for merchants—and gave rise to a host of smooth operators, charlatans, forgers, and imposters seeking to siphon off some of the new wealth. The Book of Swindles, which was ostensibly written as a manual for self-protection in this shifting and unstable world, also offers an expert guide to the art of deception. Each story comes with commentary by the author, Zhang Yingyu, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle. This volume, which contains annotated translations of just over half of the eighty-odd stories in Zhang's original collection, provides a wealth of detail on social life during the late Ming and offers words of warning for a world in peril.
The New Cheats of London Exposed; Or, the Frauds and Tricks of the Town Laid Open to Both Sexes
Author | : For W. Clements J. Sadler Eves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780461851441 |
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The New Cheats of London Exposed; Or the Frauds and Tricks of the Town Laid Open to Both Sexes. Being a Guard Against the Iniquitous Practices of That Metropolis.
Author | : RICHARD. KING |
Publisher | : Gale Ecco, Print Editions |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2018-04-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781385134894 |
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T228805 Abridged and altered from Richard King's 'The frauds of London detected'. [Manchester]: Printed by A. Swindells. Manchester: and sold by M. Clements, and J. Sadler, [1800?]. 48p.; 4°