Reminiscences Of A Famous Magician
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Stories of a Street Performer
Author | : Whit Pop Haydn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781937981334 |
Whit "Pop" Haydn, six-time award winning Magician and former Vice President of the world famous Magic Castle, shares his over 40 years of experiences performing magic all around the world. Stories of a Street Performer is a classic tale and a must read. This book is filled with vital lessons for the up and coming performer and life lessons that all can learn from. Whether you are an aspiring performer, a fan of magicians, or a seeker of exciting stories, this is one book you will not be able to put down.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer
Author | : Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author, and conjurer is a book by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin. It presents the fictive tale of Robert Houdin, a performer in France during the 19th Century – who is thought to be the father of contemporary magic and illusion.
The Secret History of Magic
Author | : Peter Lamont |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0143130633 |
Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.
David Copperfield's History of Magic
Author | : David Copperfield |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total 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. --
Later Magic
Author | : Professor Hoffman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258884055 |
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Magicdotes - A Book of Anecdotes and Stories About Magic, Magicians, and Mentalists
Author | : Robert Orben |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1473353041 |
This text contains a collection of magical anecdotes to be used by a magician for a number of reasons, ranging from comedic purposes to fabricating their personal history. Section one contains original gags and anecdotes about magicians, which can be used either as straight comedy material in your act of as general gems of interest. Section two contains some of the best anecdotes to have been published in the years leading up to the publication of this book. Contained in section three are a number of the best anecdotes sent to the author in response to a nation-wide appeal. Section four contains straight comedy routines that can be used as such, or from which individual gags can be extracted for use in your magic routines. This is a text that will be of considerable use to the working magician, as well as providing interesting and entreating reading for those merely interested in magic. We are proud to republish this antique book here complete with a new introduction on magic tricks.
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Author | : Jim Steinmeyer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101486341 |
Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatusand costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century- a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories.