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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro : The Greatest Enchanter of the Eighteenth Century
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    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Flamingo , 2003 .
      Extent: xii, 352p., [8]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports.
      ISBN: 0732273978 (pbk.)
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Genre-Bending: From Crossover History to Autobiographical Travel Iain McCalman , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Readers, Writers, Publishers : Essays and Poems 2004; (p. 87-95) McCalman explains the process he underwent to transform his historically accurate portrayal of the life of Count Cagliostro into a work that would be accessible to, and popular with, non-specialist readers. His technique was to borrow from the structures of literary fiction, thereby preserving 'the suspense and pace of the story without compromising [his] core beliefs about what a historian can truthfully say about the past.' McCalman acknowledges that his editor and some reviewers were left wondering whether he was writing history or fiction.
Genre-Bending: From Crossover History to Autobiographical Travel Iain McCalman , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Readers, Writers, Publishers : Essays and Poems 2004; (p. 87-95) McCalman explains the process he underwent to transform his historically accurate portrayal of the life of Count Cagliostro into a work that would be accessible to, and popular with, non-specialist readers. His technique was to borrow from the structures of literary fiction, thereby preserving 'the suspense and pace of the story without compromising [his] core beliefs about what a historian can truthfully say about the past.' McCalman acknowledges that his editor and some reviewers were left wondering whether he was writing history or fiction.
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