David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination
Title | David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | David Copperfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780061052293 |
A collection of original fantasy tales includes contributions by such popular authors as Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Greg Bear, Eric Lustbader, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Silverberg, and Katherine Dunn, among others.
David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible
Title | David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible PDF eBook |
Author | David Copperfield |
Publisher | Eos |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1996-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780061054921 |
David Copperfield, the world's foremost illusionist, gathers together in this anthology a stunning collection of stories about the world of magic. Contributing writers include Harlan Ellison, Larry Bond, Dtephen Donaldson, John Jakes, and many more. This unique volume includes Copperfield's own introduction to each story and discussions of the magic involved in each plot.
David Copperfield's History of Magic
Title | David Copperfield's History of Magic PDF eBook |
Author | David Copperfield |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982112913 |
In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --
Brainworks
Title | Brainworks PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Sweeney |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1426207573 |
A companion book to the National Geographic TV series uses brain teasers and optical illusions to shed light on the workings of the human brain.
Hard Times
Title | Hard Times PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN |
The Victorian Freak Show
Title | The Victorian Freak Show PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Craton |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism & Collections |
ISBN | 1604976535 |
"The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in England throughout much of the nineteenth century, and souvenir portraits of performing freaks even found their way into Victorian family albums. At the same time, the imagery and practices of the freak show shocked Victorian sensibilities and sparked controversy about both the boundaries of physical normalcy and morality in entertainment. Marketing tactics for the freak show often made use of common ideological assumptions - compulsory female domesticity and British imperial authority, for instance - but reflected these ideas with the surreal distortion of a fun-house mirror. Not surprisingly, the popular fiction written for middle-class Victorian readers also calls upon imagery of extreme physical difference, and the odd-bodied characters that people nineteenth-century fiction raise meaningful questions about the relationships between physical difference and the social expectations that shaped Victorian life." "This book is primarily an aesthetic analysis of freak show imagery as it appears in Victorian popular fiction, including the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Florence Marryat, and Lewis Carroll. It argues that, in spite of a strong nineteenth-century impulse to define and defend normalcy, images of radical physical difference are often framed in surprisingly positive ways in Victorian fiction. The dwarves, fat people, and bearded ladies who intrude on the more conventional imagery of Victorian novels serve to shift the meaning of those works' main plots and characters, sometimes sharpening satires of the nineteenth-century treatment of the poor or disabled, sometimes offering new traits and behaviors as supplements for restrictive social norms." --Book Jacket.
The Childhood of David Copperfield
Title | The Childhood of David Copperfield PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
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