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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40275832 Title: The history of the siege of Lisbon Author: José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0156006243 9780156006248 OCLC:40275832

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The history of the siege of Lisbon

Author:	José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero
Publisher:	San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : English : 1st Harvest edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.
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Genre/Form:	Historical fiction., Parables.
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero Find more information about:
ISBN:	0156006243 9780156006248
OCLC Number:	40275832
Notes:	Originally pub. as hbk.: c1996.
Description:	314 p. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles:	História do cerco de Lisboa.
Responsibility:	José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

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A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.

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