Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection

By Various · Running time 03:39:35 · *Non-fiction, Essays & Short Works

Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.

About this book

This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in. The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness account, published in 1836 and purporting to reveal the horrors of life in a convent. The Donation of Constantine is a forged imperial decree, supposedly enacting a perpetual transfer of authority over the western part of the Roman Empire from the emperor to the Pope. George Psalmanazar, who passed himself off as a native of Formosa (Taiwan), wrote

Description from the LibriVox catalogue.

Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →

You might also like

• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001Various · 3:02:35
• Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2Various · 2:53:18
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002Various · 2:44:14
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004Various · 3:54:48
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006Various · 3:37:26
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012Various · 4:37:31
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003Various · 2:09:06
• Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005Various · 2:21:31