The Online Books Page

Impostors and imposture

Here are entered works on impostors in the legal sense. Works on feeling like a fake or fraud although one is successful are entered under Impostor phenomenon.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Crime
• Criminals

• Fraud

• Impostors and imposture -- Biography
• Impostors and imposture -- Encyclopedias
• Impostors and imposture -- England
• Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
• Impostors and imposture -- Great Britain
• Impostors and imposture -- United States
• Impostors and imposture in literature
• Quacks and quackery
• Psalmanazar, George, 1679?-1763

• Charlatans
• Imposters
• Pretenders

• Famous Impostors (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Humbugs of the World (New York: Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at MOA
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2-volume edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. (New York: the author, 1835), by G. Vale (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Three Impostors, Translated (With Notes and Comments) From a French Manuscript of the Work Written in the Year 1716, With a Dissertation on the Original Treatise, and a Bibliography of the Various Editions (editorship attributed to Briggs; 1904), ed. by Samuel Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (reprinted from Reformed Church Review, 1910), by Stanley Lefevre Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (electronic edition), by James Randi (HTML at randi.org)

• Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, by John Mathew Gutch (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)

• The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Miraculous Conformist: or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures Performed by the Stroking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick, With a Physicall Discourse Thereupon (Oxford, UK: Printed by H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed: Written by Himself In a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., Whereunto Are Annexed the Testimonials of Several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the Chief Matters of Fact Therein Related (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666), by Valentine Greatrakes, contrib. by Robert Boyle
  • HTML at Oxford Text Archive
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia: In Qua Maxima Improborum et Indoctorum Turba Sub Dio Enudatur, Quos aut Subdola Pietatis Pelle Velatos, aut Insolenti Scientiae Fumo Seu Fuco Obductos, Vel Irreligio Mera, Vel Rapax Avaritia Omnes Ultra Impudentes ad Medicinae Praxin Egit Praecipites (in Latin; London: Excudebat Aug. Matheus, 1624), by Peter Bowne (page images at NIH)

• Brat Farrar (c1949), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1898), by Anthony Hope, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Ince (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Room 13, by Edgar Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at freeread.com.au)
• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• The Sin That Was His (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races; An Answer to "Miscegenation" (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864), by John H. Van Evrie
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)

• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Cautions and Advice to the Public, Respecting Some Abuses in Medicine, Through the Malpractices of Quacks or Pretenders to the Medical and Chirurgical Arts (London: Printed for the author, and sold by H.D. Symonds, ca. 1787), by William Jackson (page images at NIH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Your Money's Worth: A Study in the Waste of the Consumer's Dollar (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Lake of Fire (New York: C. Kendall, c1933), by Lionel Houser, illust. by Steele Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• The Forger (c1927), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Orley Farm (new edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Anthony Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

• Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2002), by Robert Tillman (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.