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"The definitive book on the subject" of plagiarism (The New York Times) is updated with a new afterword about the Internet. What is plagiarism, and why is it such a big deal? Since when is originality considered an indispensable attribute of authorship? Stolen Words is a deft and... read more

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CENTURIES never start or end on time, and any serious reader of English literature can tell another that the eighteenth ended in 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge detonated the Lyrical Ballads, thereby blowing up the orderly colonnade of Augustan oaks and clearing the field for the Romantic era's giddy blooms.

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  1. Thomas Mallon (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0899193935
Page Count: 300

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