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Young liar biography
Stories Before 1850. 0227: W. F. Sullivan, The Young Liar!!
| Author: | Sullivan, William Francis |
| Title: | The Young Liar!! A tale of truth and caution; for the benefit of the rising generation.
By W. F. Sullivan, A.M., teacher of elocution and belles-lettres |
Cat.Young liar biography wikipediaNumber: | 0227 |
| Date: | 1817 |
| 1st Edition: | |
| Pub. Place: | London |
| Publisher: | Dean and Munday |
| Price: | 1s |
| Pages: | 1 vol., 59pp. |
| Size: | 17 x 10 cm |
| Illustrations: | Fold-out frontispiece plus two further full-page engravings |
| Note: | Inscriptions on title-page ('Susan Grace') and on fly-leaf ('The Gift of Miss S.
Grace Dec.r 1827') |
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Introductory essay
The Young Liar opens with the birth of a longed-for son, Wilfred Storey, to a prosperous Leicestershire farming family.
From his birth, however, the young boy is accustomed to what Sullivan calls 'the marvellous', that is to say, to fiction. His nurse, Nurse Fibwell, gossips to