Jeffrey Garcia
ENGLTWO
19 October 2015
Plagiarism in Literature My high school teacher once told me that plagiarism can be the same as copying a classmate’s homework. Since it’s also taking part of a work from another person without proper credit. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that we have very serious offenses similar to those who have practiced the real plagiarism. In literature, plagiarism has been an issue since the 1800s. Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842) also known as Stendhal, has published a book called The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna (Paris 1814), ("Life of Haydn| Eighteenth Century Music") which has parts widely from two previous biographies. ("4 Famous Cases of Plagiarism