The Death and Resurrection of Almansor the Gentle Robber: A Book I Have Written and Never Read

The title is literal. This is a book conceived in plagiarism, rightfully attributed to me as its creator, and I deliberately tried not to commune with the work during its creation. I never “authored” it in the traditional sense. I have never read the result.

I composed this book in one night by going to Project Gutenberg and searching for collections of short stories to plagiarize. Why? This project challenges my own ideas about how plagiarism is curational and contextual content. Can I curate content that I have never seen and have not verified the quality of? It turns out, yes.

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To be honest, I do not typically use EPUBs, so I don't know what people expect from them or how to design them. It is a direct export from the same file as the PDF, which is probably not great. Nonetheless, it's there if you want it.