Download or read book The History of the Siege of Lisbon written by José Saramago and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.