Download or read book The Magical Panorama written by Mattie Boom and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Panorama Mesdag, a cylindrical painting more than 14 meters high and 120 meters in circumference. It was painted by Hendrik Willem Mesdag in 1881 and depicts the seaside town of Scheveningen, Netherlands.

Download or read book Panorama of Magic written by Milbourne Christopher and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1962 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of some of history's famous practitioners of magic.

Download or read book The Magic Handbook written by Peter Eldin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of tricks, jokes, and stunts.

Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in early 19th-century Paris, The Magic Skin tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. A young man named Raphaël de Valentin wagers his last coin and loses, then proceeds to the river Seine to drown himself. On the way, however, he decides to enter an unusual shop and finds it filled with curiosities from around the world. The elderly shopkeeper leads him to a piece of shagreen hanging on the wall. It is inscribed with "Oriental" writing; the old man calls it "Sanskrit", but it is imprecise Arabic. The skin promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking slightly upon the fulfillment of each desire. The shopkeeper is willing to let Valentin take it without charge, but urges him not to accept the offer. Valentin waves away the shopkeeper's warnings and takes the skin, wishing for a royal banquet, filled with wine, women, and friends. He is immediately met by acquaintances who invite him to such an event; they spend hours eating, drinking, and talking. But his actions must meet consequences. For each wish granted, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.

Download or read book The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1 written by Terry Brooks and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the fantasy, thrills, and far-flung adventure of the first three novels in Terry Brooks’s enchanting Magic Kingdom of Landover series—now for the first time in one gripping volume. Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday can’t fathom what lies ahead when he purchases Landover—a magical kingdom of chivalry and sorcery—from Meeks, the mysterious seller who placed the ad. Weary and jaded, Ben clings to the ad’s promise: “Escape into your dreams.” But Landover is not the enchanted idyll he expected. The kingdom is in ruin. The barons refuse to recognize Ben as King, a dragon is decimating the countryside, and a demon lord has challenged any prospective ruler to a fatal duel. To make matters worse, the Paladin, renowned champion of the Kings of Landover, seems to be merely a legend. Ben’s only allies are a bumbling court magician, a talking dog turned court scribe, and the beautiful Willow, who is part girl, part tree. With his friends in tow, Ben sets out to claim the throne. But when Meeks decides he wants Landover back, Ben will face supernatural foes of every stripe to prove himself worthy of the kingship. The question is: Can he survive?

Download or read book The Magic Mountain written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.

Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Magic Screen written by Joost Hunningher and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the (now restored) Regent Street Cinema is the fourth volume exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. This multi-authored volume tells its history from architectural, educational, legal and cinematic perspectives and is richly illustrated throughout with images from the University of Westminster archive.

Download or read book The Magic Mountain written by Thomas Mann and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Magic of Digital Close up Photography written by Joseph Meehan and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert photographer Joseph Meehan explains every aspect of close-up digital photography, with information on cameras, accessories, lighting; tactical approaches for different subjects and ideas for computer image enhancement.

Download or read book THE MAGIC PRESENCE written by Godfré Ray King and published by FYÜ-Verlag Bernd Prokop. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of instructional books for successful living on physical, mental, and spiritual levels invites readers on a journey into the depths of consciousness and spiritual insight. The second installment continues the story of Godfré Ray King from "Unveiled Mysteries" and brings him into closer contact with several other storylines. Set in various places in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, and India in the early 1930s, the plot unfolds through wonderful experiences, amazing adventures, and enlightening teachings. The spiritual knowledge of the Ascended Masters is conveyed seamlessly, almost incidentally, while various teachers and Ascended Masters share their wisdom. In this installment, the concept of "I AM," the Magic Presence, is explained in detail for the first time, preparing readers for the third part, "The 'I AM' Discourses." This installment delves into the value, function, and possible applications of this creative expression within every human being, without a framework story.

Download or read book The Magic Fault written by Paul Mohrbacher and published by Second Wind Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shroud of Turin-claimed to be the burial cloth of Christ-is stolen from a chapel in the Cathedral of Turin in the fall of 2004. The Shroud is perhaps the most famous relic in the Catholic Church, even though some believe it to be a fake. The thieves leave only one obscure clue: the relic will head off a disaster. Beneath the identity and the grand design of the thieves lies an opportunistic plan to tilt the Catholic Church eastward-again.

Download or read book The Magic Lantern written by Maria Cristina Paganoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken’s writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues as urban space and imperialism in the Victorian era.

Download or read book The Magic Journey written by John Nichols and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown. Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky-high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims, and the wheeler-dealers were rich. At first, it was a magic time for Chamisaville—almost as if every day were a holiday. But the euphoria gradually dissipated, and the land-hungry developers, speculators, and interlopers moved in. Finally, the day came when Chamisaville's people found themselves all but displaced, their children no longer heirs to their land or their tradition. With mounting intensity, The Magic Journey reaches a climax that is tragically foreordained. A sensitive, vital, and honest chronicle of life in America's Southwest, it is also an incisive commentary on what America has become on its road to progress. The Magic Journey is part of John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Nirvana Blues.

Download or read book The Magic Mantle written by John Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Magic Box written by Rob Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.' HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.' SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.' OBSERVER 'Impassioned.' THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM