to find this quite incredible?

[Mitchy1nge]

is quite a long read but wtf?

when dickens met Dostoevsky

Marking my place to read tomorrow

Blimey! Fascinating.

That was super-interesting - thanks for the link! at the nipples too.

My Mum rang me to tell me about this, because one of the people mentioned was my doctoral supervisor.
I find it all v fascinating, particularly that he might have been taken in by this guy.
It's a great story!

No way!

I really want to know who, now.

as a russianist, i found this fascinating.

you might find this francis wheen book interesting

www.amazon.co.uk/Irresistible-Con-Bizarre-Fraudulent-Genius/dp/1904095747/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369251912&sr=1-11

After reading the article I then read this:

blogs.spectator.co.uk/peter-robins/2013/04/a-d-harvey-in-the-spectator-a-little-tribute-to-eric-naimans-when-dickens-met-dostoevsky/

and guess who the only comment below is from?

but what a FREAK

If there were no bad people, there would be no good trolls.

This is a really interesting piece of scholarly detective work!

I've now just bought a v. cheap 2nd hand copy of 'Sex in Georgian England' (it's my sort of 'field') for sharp-critical-knives schadenfreude purposes-- from Amazon out of academic curiosity. I noticed in the: 'customers who bought this also shopped for' section that 'Oxford: The Novel' has A.D. Harvey listed as the author, not 'Leo Bellingham'.

That is awesomely mad of him!