Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Famous Impostors

Famous Impostors

Stoker, Bram

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1605209058
ISBN13: 9781605209050
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He's best remembered as the legendary manager of London's Lyceum Theatre and author of the incalculably influential 1897 novel Dracula, but Bram Stoker was a prolific writer of numerous other works, including books of nonfiction. This curious 1910 work, one of his last, is an amusing survey of the charlatans, rogues, and other practitioners of make-believe who bedevil and delight us. With a cheerfully withering eye for their cons, Stoker introduces us to many famous fakers including: - royal pretenders (such as Perkin Warbeck, who claimed King Henry VII's throne) - magicians (Paracelsus, Cagliostro, etc.) - witches and clairvoyants - women masquerading as men - hoaxers - and others. Irish author ABRAHAM STOKER (1847-1912) worked for more than a quarter of a century as manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which drew him into London's literary and artists circles; he was a friend of such luminaries as writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Stoker is also the author of The Lair of the White Worm (1911), among other books.

6 different editions

Also available

Also in

General World History

View All