The Odyssey
Homer
the stories he makes up for Athena in Book XIII, for Eumaeus in Book XIV and for Penelope in Book XIX, and the bed with which she tests him in Book XXIII.
The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the resurrection of the soldier Kolpakov (ch. VIII of Part One), the general who insists that his friend lives in an apartment whose nameplate bears another name (ch. XII of Part One), the game of sincerity (ch. XIII of Part One, ch. XIV of Part One), the truth that makes the general cry (ch. VI of Part Two), the confessions of Keller and Lebedev, who mix sincerity and calculation (ch. XI of Part Two), the prince who knows Ganya deceives him and that Ganya knows he knows (ch. XII of Part Two), Captain Yeropegov, who never existed (ch. II of Part Four), Napoleon's page (ch. IV of Part Four) and what began with a lie and had to end with a lie (ch. IX of Part Four).
Demons
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the professor who believed for twenty years in a persecution that did not exist (chapter I of Part One), the illness the town invents so as not to admit the affront (chapter II of Part One), the anecdote Pyotr tells Varvara and the captain confirms point by point (chapter V of Part One), one's own face as the most cunning disguise (chapter I of Part Two), Marya Timofeyevna calling her husband an impostor (chapter II of Part Two), the conspiracy of three and a half men told to the governor (chapter VI of Part Two), the Stavrogin whom Pyotr says he invented abroad (chapter VIII of Part Two), the marriage declared before everyone (chapter X of Part Two), the denunciation never seen (chapter IV of Part Three), the man who believes himself when he lies (chapter VII of Part Three), and the confession deliberately written coarser than the heart (“With Tikhon”).
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
the widow's question about the pension (ch. I), the doctor who argues over kidney and appendix (ch. IV), the wife's kiss (ch. V), the lie that he is only ill (ch. VII), the silence before the theater (ch. VIII), the suspicion before Gerasim (ch. XI), and the justification that holds him in the black sack (ch. XII).
Othello
William Shakespeare
the "I am not what I am" of scene 1 of Act I, the echo of "honest" in scene 3 of Act III and Emilia's revelation in scene 2 of Act V.