Famous Impostors: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Famous Impostors, credited to Bram Stoker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker. Read in English by Bridget Paul; Ann Boulais; Ross Klatte; Lynne Thompson; Kathleen Moore; Lilith Branda; Pamela Nagami; Anna Simon. 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. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Famous Impostors
• Author credits: Bram Stoker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:48:57

Catalogue topics

• fraud
• deceit
• lying
• tricksters
• subterfuge

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 7:49
2. 01 - Pretenders - Perkin Warbeck; The Hidden King — 42:20
3. 02 - Pretenders - Stephan Mali; The False Dauphins — 27:30
4. 03 - Pretenders - Princess Olive — 30:16
5. 04 - Practitioners of Magic — 51:45
6. 05 - The Wandering Jew — 24:41
7. 06 - John Law — 37:42
8. 07 - Witchcraft and Clairvoyance - Witches; Doctor Dee; La Voisin — 43:27
9. 08 - Witchcraft and Clairvoyance - Sir Edward Kelley; Mother Damnable; Matthew Hopkins — 36:04
10. 09 - Arthur Orton (Tichborne claimant) — 46:29
11. 10 - Women as Men — 31:21
12. 11 - Hoaxes, etc. — 27:09
13. 12 - Chevalier D'Eon — 19:44
14. 13 - The Bisley Boy Part 1 — 30:43
15. 14 - The Bisley Boy Part 2 — 40:45
16. 15 - The Bisley Boy Part 3 — 31:12

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