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Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker

Book Overview: 

Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as believable if such people had not, in reality, existed since time immemorial. In this work, the famous Bram Stoker throws light on just a few such people, who have tricked their way into the annals of history.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .In 1803 he was put in the House of Correction at St. Denis. In 1805 he41 enlisted as a gunner. In 1815 he re-appeared with an American passport bearing the name of Charles de Navarre. His more ambitious attempt at personation in 1817, was not in the long run successful. He claimed his rights, as “Dauphin” Bourbon under Louis XVIII, was arrested at St. Malo, and confined at Bicêtre. He got round him a gang of persons of evil life, as shown by their various records. One was a false priest, another a prisoner for embezzlement, another an ex-bailiff who was also a forger, another a deserter; with the usual criminal concomitant of women, dishonoured clergy and such like. At Rouen he was sentenced to pay a fine of three thousand francs in addition to imprisonment for seven years. He died in prison.

The imposture regarding the Dauphin was like a torch-race—so soon as the lighted torch fell from the hand of one runner it was lifted by him wh. . . Read More

Community Reviews

After the first three chapters it picks up. The beginning had so much detail and zero spice!

She's a man, baby!

This Stoker non-fiction work is pretty good: The initial stories weren't that interesting, but it picks up strongly in the back half when he starts talking about the numerous occasions of women pretending to be men (and sometimes "pretending" to be men, like Anne Bonney, maybe?) an

I enjoyed this one even though some of the names of Dukes, Earls, etc from history were hard to follow for me. For most books, I deduct points for bad editing; however, the typos and formatting problems with this edition are not the fault of the author. Anyone who prepares Kindle versions of classic

Interesting read. How true though is another question!

Hard to read

I couldn't get into this book at all. To much detail I couldn't understand a word of it. Didn't even know who I was actually reading about. Tried chapter two but just as bad as chapter three. I gave up after that.

That Queen Elisabeth I was an impostor could even be; that she was a "he"... well, that's too much, definitly!

Very interesting, entertaining book about real life imposters of long ago.

This book starts off with Perkin Warbeck, who pretended to be Richard, one of the Plantagenet Princes in the Tower.
The book has many imposters as well as hoaxes. The Cat Hoax was one, and it did not end well.

The last chapter w

I focused all of my attention on the last chapter which depicts the famous imposture in the English history, if it is really true. The Bisley boy became the Queen at last. What an absurd adventure. Do you think she was actually a he?

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