title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Erie Train Boy | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en | | | | Conduct of life -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Railroads -- Fiction | 2008-07-16 |
The Confidence-Man
His Masquerade | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 | en | | | | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Steamboats -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Satire | 2007-06-12 |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | | | Impostors and imposture; Swindlers and swindling; Stock exchanges -- Psychological aspects; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Investments -- Psychological aspects; Delusions; Alchemy; Social psychology | 1996-11-01 |
Luke Walton | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en | | | | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-07-17 |
Fame and Fortune
or, The Progress of Richard Hunter | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en | | | | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction | 2007-05-28 |
The Market-Place | Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898 | en | | | | Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Stock exchanges -- Fiction; Jews -- Fiction | 2008-07-09 |
Bound to Rise | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en | | | | Friendship -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Apprentices -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction | 2004-06-01 |
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics. | | Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Occultism; Social psychology; Swindlers and swindling; Hallucinations and illusions | 2008-02-05 |