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(0)Jim Steinmeyer
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed historian sleuths out literature's most famous vampire, uncovering the source material -- from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman -- behind Bram Stoker's bloody creation.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Harry Houdini was the greatest escape artist in history, yet known to his contemporaries as a terrible stage magician. Nevertheless, in 1918 he performed a single illusion that has been hotly debated ever since: Under the bright lights at New York's Hippodrome Theater, he made a live elephant disappear. Where did he learn this amazing trick and how did it work? The astonishing answers lie in magic expert Jim Steinmeyer's chronicle of more than half...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Two renowned historians of stage magic team up to produce this definitive, engaging history of stage magic, from Ancient Egypt to David Copperfield. Fifty glorious illustrations throughout. This is the story of how conjurors managed to survive in a world of modern wonders. It is a history of unbelievable tales. Behind the tall tales is an extraordinary truth. If you read the standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt,...
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