Comments on: It was all a Hoax… http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/ Nobody Puts Backlist In A Corner Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shelfrenewal http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-13 shelfrenewal Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:43:58 +0000 http://shelfrenewal.com/?p=236#comment-13 Thanks CarolK! That is awesome. Who knew? Thanks for sharing the full text as well. Thanks CarolK! That is awesome. Who knew? Thanks for sharing the full text as well.

]]> By: CarolK http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-12 CarolK Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:25:21 +0000 http://shelfrenewal.com/?p=236#comment-12 Our library hosted a program about Edgar Allan Poe this evening with an actor, Lou Harmon, protraying the writer/poet. We learned that Poe had a balloon hoax story of his own. Poe wrote a story for The New York Sun about Monck Mason, who took off from England and landed his egg-shaped balloon in South Carolina. Published in 1844, you can read the full text here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/20/2009-10-20_the_balloon_hoax.html Our library hosted a program about Edgar Allan Poe this evening with an actor, Lou Harmon, protraying the writer/poet. We learned that Poe had a balloon hoax story of his own. Poe wrote a story for The New York Sun about Monck Mason, who took off from England and landed his egg-shaped balloon in South Carolina. Published in 1844, you can read the full text here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/20/2009-10-20_the_balloon_hoax.html

]]> By: Roberta http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Roberta Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:09 +0000 http://shelfrenewal.com/?p=236#comment-11 I'd include Drood by Dan Simmons, whose narrator (Wilkie Collins) is both jealous of Mr. Dickens and addicted to laudanum. And I third The Egyptologist! I’d include Drood by Dan Simmons, whose narrator (Wilkie Collins) is both jealous of Mr. Dickens and addicted to laudanum. And I third The Egyptologist!

]]> By: shelfrenewal http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-10 shelfrenewal Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:47:10 +0000 http://shelfrenewal.com/?p=236#comment-10 thanks Carly! I had thought about adding the Egyptologist as well. thanks Carly! I had thought about adding the Egyptologist as well.

]]> By: Carly http://shelfrenewal.com/2009/10/19/it-was-all-a-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Carly Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:08:33 +0000 http://shelfrenewal.com/?p=236#comment-9 I would also include When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (which has two unreliable narrators). I would also include When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (which has two unreliable narrators).

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