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Deception

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• Truthfulness and falsehood

• Deception -- Drama
• Deception -- Fiction
• Deception -- Political aspects
• Disguise
• Disinformation
• Fraud
• Hoaxes

• Chicanery
• Deceit
• Subterfuge

• Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Lady Audley's Secret: An Original Version of Miss Braddon's Popular Novel (play script in two acts; London and New York: S. French, n.d.), by C. H. Hazlewood, contrib. by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy, in Four Acts (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879), by Harriette R. Shattuck, contrib. by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Audley's Secret, by M. E. Braddon
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume III: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Highways in Hiding (c1956), by George O. Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century, by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Lake of Fire (New York: C. Kendall, c1933), by Lionel Houser, illust. by Steele Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim (Gutenberg text)
• The Cinema Murder (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• The Forger (c1927), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Orley Farm (new edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Anthony Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield, Based on a Great Insurance Swindle, and a Woman! (New York: Book Supply Co., 1946), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Asta Zelenkauskaite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, April 24, 2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes (first committee report, with additional views from Tom Davis; 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, contrib. by Tom Davis (PDF at gpo.gov)

• Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Asta Zelenkauskaite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Asta Zelenkauskaite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" (original newspaper serial version, with new introduction; from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of 1948), by Ray Sprigle, contrib. by Bill Steigerwald (illustrated HTML at post-gazette.com)

• The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Stanford University: Election Integrity Partnership, 2021), by University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graphika, and Stanford Internet Observatory, ed. by Eden Beck (PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)
• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)

• Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's Disinformation and Propaganda, 1990-2003, by George W. Bush (HTML and PDF at archives.gov)

• Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review (full serial archives)

• The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2021), ed. by W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)

• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts (PDF (mouse over "open access" link to reveal) with commentary at OUP)

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Stanford University: Election Integrity Partnership, 2021), by University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graphika, and Stanford Internet Observatory, ed. by Eden Beck (PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)

• Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2019), ed. by Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, and Ulf Schmidt (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Your Money's Worth: A Study in the Waste of the Consumer's Dollar (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do About It (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2011), by Terry L. Leap (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • text and PDF at congress.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

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