The Book of Swindles

The Book of Swindles
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Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 0231178638
ISBN-13 : 9780231178631
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Book Synopsis The Book of Swindles by : Yingyu Zhang

Download or read book The Book of Swindles written by Yingyu Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.


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