Download or read book A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic written by Tom Adams and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
Download or read book A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic written by Tom Adams and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
Download or read book Engines of Instruction Mischief and Magic written by Mary V. Jackson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books
Download or read book M for Mischief written by Richard Parker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magical Mischief written by Anna Dale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbattle Books is no ordinary bookshop. Magic has settled there in every corner and over the years has brought chaos to Mr Hardbattle's life and driven away most of his customers. His livelihood threatened, Mr Hardbattle is finally forced to take action. Together, Mr Hardbattle, the resourceful and down-to-earth Arthur and Miss Quint embark upon a quest to find a new home for the magic!
Download or read book The Magical Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wizards written by Jennifer Schwamm Willis and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the kids sit down at the computer or turn on the television, hand them Wizards, where they can spend the night next door to a man-eating troll, accompany a boy on his first day at wizard school, or take a ride on the North Wind. The Harry Potter series has created a hunger for great fantasy literature amongst children and their parents, many of whom have never read such masters of the medium as C. S. Lewis, T. H. White, Roald Dahl, or E. Nesbit. Now the editors of the Adrenaline series have moved into a new genre with the same attention to great stories, great characters, and great writing that has made Adrenaline the most successful series of its kind. In addition to the above writers, Wizards draws upon a rich load of forgotten classics (without which there would be no Harry Potter) by such authors as Jane Yolen, George MacDonald, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A. Philippa Pearce, Nicholas Stuart Gray, John Bellairs, and Edward Eager.
Download or read book An Arthurian Miscellany written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 4632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Miscellany written by Alex Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered: • When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy? • Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity? • Why Are the Best Autobiographies so Embarrassing? • Why Do Some Detectives Use Their Minds and Others Their Fists? Who knew that bestseller lists and children’s books could be the source of intense controversy? Or that even the biggest writers had to scrape by, with odd jobs and inventions like the Mark Twain Self-Pasting Scrapbook? In Literary Miscellany, examine the trend of “fake memoirs,” with a list of who lied about what, and a rogues’ gallery of hoaxers dating back centuries. From epic poetry and Homer to pulp fiction and Harry Potter, Literary Miscellany is a breezy tour through the literature of today and yesterday, packed with enough interesting facts to entertain both the erudite professor and pleasure reader.
Download or read book Magic Mischief and Mayhem written by Alexandra O'Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secular Magic and the Moving Image written by Max Sexton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the moving image to conjure marvelous worlds has usually been to understand it in terms of 'move magic'. On film, a fascination for enchantment and wonder has transmuted older beliefs in the supernatural into secular attractions. But this study is not about the history of special effects or a history of magic. Rather, it attempts to determine the influence and status of secular magic on television within complex modes of delivery before discovering interstices with film. Historically, the overriding concern on television has been for secular magic that informs and empowers rather than a fairytale effect that deceives and mystifies. Yet, shifting notions of the real and the uncertainty associated with the contemporary world has led to television developing many different modes that have become capable of constant hybridization. The dynamic interplay between certainty and indeterminacy is the key to understanding secular magic on television and film and exploring the interstices between them. Sexton ranges from the real-time magic of street performers, such as David Blaine, Criss Angel, and Dynamo, to Penn and Teller's comedy magic, to the hypnotic acts of Derren Brown, before finally visiting the 2006 films The Illusionist and The Prestige. Each example charts how the lack of clear distinctions between reality and illusion in modes of representation and presentation disrupt older theoretical oppositions. Secular Magic and the Moving Image not only re-evaluates questions about modes and styles but raises further questions about entertainment and how the relations between the program maker and the audience resemble those between the conjuror and spectator. By re-thinking these overlapping practices and tensions and the marking of the indeterminacy of reality on media screens, it becomes possible to revise our understanding of inter-medial relations.
Download or read book Audience Tested Originalities written by Graham Reed and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bentley s Miscellany written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bentley s miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wizards written by Jennifer Schwamm Willis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories by such authors as T.H. White, Margery Williams, Hans Christian Andersen, and Mark Helprin, as well as excerpts from the works of Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, Philippa Pearce, Ursula LeGuin, and C.S. Lewis.
Download or read book Magic and Mischief written by Emily Sorensen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic and mischief are here! A collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories featuring dragons, aliens, humor, and a few characters with magic who just can't stay out of trouble if their life depends on it. Includes the following short stories: "Valentine's Oops" When Donovan finds out his best friend's little sister wants to cast a love potion on him, he knows he has to escape a fate worse than death. "To Catch a Leprechaun" It's really tough to catch a leprechaun. Especially when sisters get in the way. "The Goose That Laid Golden Easter Eggs" The family has a magical new goose. One that quacks and clucks and moos and lays golden eggs. So what happens when Junior feeds it his sister's watch? "Little House in the Crater" When the author's grandma told her to write something more like Little House on the Prairie . . . this . . . probably wasn't what she had in mind. "Mirror Image" Maria's mirror image just decided to visit her. Which might be a little more dangerous than either of them expected. "The Reason Why My Paper is Late" It was all because of the alien abduction. Honest! "Glass Beads" If the aliens can get the humans into a bad negotiating position, they'll have it made. "The Silent Princess" Princess Selenna's deaf. How was she supposed to know she was making a deal with a frog when she dropped her golden ball in the moat? "The Body-Borrower" The puppy will not stop borrowing Tasha's body while she's astral projecting! "Unexpected Lastborn" Annie will never forget the day her mother snubbed the witch. Includes the following funny drabbles (100 word short stories): "Computer Gremlins" "The Dark Lord's Genie" "The Day of Shoulder Angels" "Miss Galaxy" "Way Too Familiar" "Standardized Testing" "Dragon Bait" "Easy Target" "The Librarian is In" "Old-Fashioned" "Proof" "Ogre" "Zombies" "Identical Twits" "The Hunt" "Imaginary Fiend" "Karmic Balance" "The Open Source Time-Travel App" And the following poems: "The Toddler's Lament" (both in poem form and in an illustrated version called "I Do Not Want to Take a Nap") "Knock Three Times" "Pixie Eggs" "One Midsummer's Night" "The Kraken" Laugh your way through these short stories and share your favorites with family.
Download or read book Dearden s miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
