The countefeiters
Material type: TextPublication details: Penguin Books London 1966Description: 345 pages; 20 cmISBN:- 9780140180930
- 843.9 GID
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833.914 SCH The reader | 839.313 KEU Ashoka the great | 843 VER The end of Nana Sahib: the steam house | 843.1 GID The countefeiters | 843.8 MAU Selected stories by Guy de Maupassant | 843.8 VER Around the world in eighty days | 843.8 VER Around the world in eighty days |
"This novel within a novel, concerns the relatives and teachers of a group of schoolboys who are subjected to corrupting influences both in and out of the classroom. The boys attend the Pension Azais where some are suspected of having attempted to circulate counterfeit coins. Edouard, an author writing a novel entitled The Counterfeiters, observes that if a counterfeit coin is thought to be authentic, it is accepted as valuable; if it is found to be counterfeit, it is perceived as worthless. Therefore, he concludes, value is wholly a matter of perception and has nothing to do with reality. The counterfeiters are thus representative of those who disguise themselves with false personalities, either in unconscious self-deception or through conscious, hypocritical conformity to convention."
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