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The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self- protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.
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The Book of Swindles, Yingyu Zhang
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2017
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- The Book of Swindles
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Yingyu Zhang
- Editore
- Columbia University Press
- Pubblicato
- 2017
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0231178638
- ISBN13
- 9780231178631
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self- protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.