Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow, by Donald I. Rogers. If you want your own copy, you can buy it here.
Moby-Dick: The Whale of a Flop That Became a Classic
Discover how Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick went from a commercial failure in 1851 to one of the greatest American novels of all time, influencing literature, art, and pop culture for generations.
Lost in Translation: The Hilarious Tale of Pedro Carolino’s Unintentional Comedy Masterpiece, “English as She Is Spoke”
There are books that are good and books that are bad. Then you have the delightfully atrocious English As She Is Spoke — a book that is so bad that it is good. English As She Is Spoke is the work of author Pedro Carolino. He aspired to become famous, and he achieved that goal.…
The Unlikely Quest to Destroy His Hero’s Reputation
The specific relevant content for this request, if necessary, delimited with characters: Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin was a fraud, and Erik was determined to prove it. The whole world might think that Robert-Houdin was the greatest, but Erik was on a quest to show that the performer’s greatness was just one more illusion. By the time Erik…
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