Sentence examples for literary deception from inspiring English sources

Robert McDonald, a bookseller at the Book Stall in Winnetka, Ill., said this act of literary deception was reminiscent of the days when Stephen King, yearning to step away temporarily from his own celebrity, wrote books pseudonymously as Richard Bachman.

The 4-year literary prizes that are supposed to give recognition to the best French novels of the 12-month have just been awarded, giving, at best, a sense of literary deception &, at worst, a couple of public scandals.

By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, December 10, 1960 P. 147 The 4-year literary prizes that are supposed to give recognition to the best French novels of the 12-month have just been awarded, giving, at best, a sense of literary deception &, at worst, a couple of public scandals.

As CEO of My Little Publishing Company, I felt it was my responsibility to get to the bottom of this horrendous literary deception.].

That's part of the point of this audacious novel, to blur the lines between reality and imagination, to use the play as a starting point for a meditation on the nature of family, identity, deception and literary heritage.

Iolo's own strongly-held ideas about the truth historical, literary, and religious speak about more than mere deception and offer a provocative look at the blurred intersection of the Celtic and British Romantic worlds.

The novel is thus both a critique of British imperialism - of its coarsening effects, its brutalities and self-deceptions - and a warning against literary populism.

The world's hypocrisies and deceptions are targets that must be attacked, comedy the literary weapon of choice.

Mr. Knoop's statements and first-hand account — the first by anyone involved in the deception — may help solve once and for all a truly bizarre literary fraud, one that drew in countless people, many of them celebrities and noted literary figures who had lengthy contact in person and on the phone with someone they thought was making literature out of a terrible childhood.

In maintaining more than 70 literary identities he called "heteronyms," he did not employ them as a mode of deception.

"Several Deceptions" delights with its verve and intelligence, but these deliciously baited literary games leave us hungry to see how their creator might lay out a simple meal.