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  • 24 Books That Changed the World
    Not many people can lay claim to having written two books that changed the world. Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, has a unique place in history as the creator of Marxism.
  • Great Literary Hoaxes
    Over the course of history some authors have had a blurred conception of the difference between fact and fiction attempting to sell their made up tales as true personal memoirs. Here is a history of some of the most major literary hoaxes to be discovered in history.
  • Collectable Screen Plays: Film Scripts Worth a Fortune
    In the world of ephemera looks can be deceiving. To an untrained eye a scruffy pile of paper may actually be the building blocks of a Hollywood blockbuster like Quentin Tarantino’s star studded Pulp Fiction - a document worth $950.
  • The History of the Hobbit
    As popularity grew publishers and fans alike began urging Tolkien to write a second book. As he began writing it wasn’t that long before Tolkien realized the need to revise the text of The Hobbit so it would properly integrate into a sequel. This also came at a time when Tolkien was in an ongoing piracy battle with US publishers and editing the text enabled him to copyright the book and end the
  • The Story and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
    Today Edgar Alan Poe is a celebrated pioneer of the mystery genre and leading figure in the American Romantic movement; however he spent most of his life facing poverty, debatable literary success and addiction.
  • Authors and Their Surprising Tattoos
    Get that stereotyped picture of tattooed sailors and truck drivers out of your head. Tattoos are mainstream and have been for several decades now, plus the literary world actually has a long tradition of wearing tattoos and also writing about them.
  • Books by Presidential Losers
    With a presidential election there can be only one winner, but what happened to those who fought and lost? Some have eventually returned to win a future election, but what about those who never became president. Over the past 68 years there have been a dozen men who ran for president and never won an election; all of them have written books. The topics of their writing vary from conventional
  • Books that Failed the Test of Time
    Every year thousands of books become obsolete. Maps are updated, Travel guides add new hotels, and scientists develop new technology however there are other times when event happens that changes history or an author’s theory is just plain gets it wrong. Below are 10 examples of books that didn’t stand the tests of time.



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