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Author: Baker, G.A. & Co., Inc., Firm, Booksellers, New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: Baker, G.A. & Co., Inc., Firm, Booksellers, New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: Walter Besant
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Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Laurence Hutton
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Charlotte Whitcomb
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Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Author: Harry Houdini
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602060770
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 125
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Magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade: it's not something that Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi invented. The legendary Harry Houdini was doing the same thing a century ago, to popular acclaim. In this 1920 book, the master showman-and surprisingly entertaining writer-uncovers the mysteries behind such extraordinary feats as fire-eating, sword-swallowing, snake-charmers, and strong men. More a simple expose of stage trickery, though, this is a brisk history of such oddities throughout history and around the world, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the culture of the Native Americans to that of Japan. This is a fascinating work of the strange and seemingly inexplicable made plain and understandable. Hungarian-American magician and professional skeptic EHRICH WEISS (1874-1926)-aka Harry Houdini, "Handcuff King and Jail Breaker"-also wrote Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) and A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Author: James Granger
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
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Author: Thomas Williams Bicknell
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Theodore Stanton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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This book has been prepared for publication as No. 4000, a "Memorial Volume," of the "Tauchnitz Edition." Perhaps it may be well to explain to American readers what the "Tauchnitz Edition" is and what a "Memorial Volume" is in this collection. The "Collection of British Authors," or, as it is more popularly known on the European Continent, the "Tauchnitz Edition," was instituted in 1841, at Leipsic, by one of the most distinguished of German publishers, the late Baron Bernhard Tauchnitz, whose son is now at the head of the house. The father records that he was "incited to the undertaking by the high opinion and enthusiastic fondness which I have ever entertained for English literature: a literature springing from the selfsame root as the literature of Germany, and cultivated in the beginning by the same Saxon race.... As a German-Saxon it gave me particular pleasure to promote the literary interest of my Anglo-Saxon cousins, by rendering English literature as universally known as possible beyond the limits of the British Empire." In another place, Baron Tauchnitz describes "the mission" of his Collection to be the "spreading and strengthening the love for English literature outside of England and her Colonies."
