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• 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)

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• 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 (1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• "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 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)

• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)

• 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)

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

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• 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 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Cases on the Law of Bankruptcy, Including the Law of Fraudulent Conveyances (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1915), ed. by Evans Holbrook and Ralph W. Aigler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• The Browder Case: A Summary of Facts; A Brief for Justice and Fair Play in America (1941), by Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (New York) (PDF at flvc.org)

• Tom Cobb (with commentary), by W. S. Gilbert (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• Soviet Active Measures: Focus on Forgeries (1983), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• Le Taensa a-t-il Eté Forgé de Toutes Pièces? Réponse à M. D.G. Brinton (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Lucien Adam (multiple formats at Google)
• Le Taensa n'a pas Été Forgé de Toutes Pièces: Lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam (in French and German; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (multiple formats at Google)
• An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age (Montrose, Scotland: Printed by J. Watt, 1816), by Hugh M'Callum and John M'Callum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed (reprinted from the American Antiquarian, March 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)
• Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, Avec Textes Traduits et Commentés (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1882), by J. Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Derk Bodde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Cookery, With Reference to Matter Attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare: A Letter Addressed to "The Athenaeum", With a Postscript Containing Some Remarks Upon the Refusal of That Journal to Print It (London: J.R. Smith, 1855), by Andrew Edmund Brae
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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