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100 1 _aStoker, Bram,
_d1847-1912
245 1 0 _aFamous Impostors
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Impostors
500 _aRelease date is 2016-03-08
505 0 _aPretenders: Perkin Warbeck. The Hidden King. Stephan Mali. The false Dauphins. Princess Olive -- Practitioners of magic: Paracelsus. Cagliostro. Mesmer -- The Wandering Jew -- John Law -- Witchcraft and clairvoyance: Witches. Doctor Dee. La Voisin. Sir Edward Kelley. Mother Damnable. Matthew Hopkins -- Arthur Orton (Tichborne claimant) -- Women as men: The motive for disguise. Hannah Snell. La Maupin. Mary East -- Hoaxes, etc.: Two London hoaxes. The cat hoax. The military review. The toll-gate. The marriage hoax. Buried treasure. Dean Swift's hoax. Hoaxed burglars. Bogus sausages. The moon hoax -- Chevalier D'Eon -- The Bisley Boy.
508 _aProduced by deaurider, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Famous Impostors" by Bram Stoker is a non-fiction book published in 1910. The Dracula author's final work explores a fascinating gallery of historical deceptions, from royal pretenders like Perkin Warbeck to practitioners of magic such as Cagliostro. The collection examines women who disguised themselves as men, infamous hoaxes that fooled entire cities, and controversial claims including the theory that Queen Elizabeth I was secretly male. Each case reveals humanity's enduring capacity for both elaborate deception and willing belief. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aImpostors and imposture
653 _aHoaxes
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51391
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