The Book of Swindles
Zhang, Yingyu / Rusk, Bruce / Rea, Christopher G.![The Book of Swindles](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/228/22861404/CHSBZCOP0322861404.jpg)
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson while also speaking as a connoisseur of the swindle.