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Being John Hughes: Inside literature’s plagiarism scandal

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The Biggest Story of Literary Plagiarism Ever

Anna Vernon Richard Cook on the biggest story of literary plagiarism ever. Hughes first says that his mistakenly copied someone else's work into his book The Dogs. But then we start to hear about more issues in the text. So I guess it's not just a light borrowing here or there. It's really a significant amount of taking from other sources.

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