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Author : Charlie Nelsen
Publisher : Lifevest Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781932338256
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Circus Life written by Charlie Nelsen and published by Lifevest Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Macneal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982106816
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Circus of Wonders written by Elizabeth Macneal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders—“as moving as it is deeply entertaining” (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author). Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called “human wonders.” When Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a “leopard girl” because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of the Moon and Stars. Before long, Nell’s fame spreads across the world—and with it, a chance for Jasper Jupiter to grow his own name and fortune. But what happens when her fame begins to eclipse his own, when even Jasper’s loyal brother Toby becomes captivated by Nell? No longer the quiet flower-picker, Nell knows her own place in the world, and she will fight for it. Circus of Wonders is a beautiful story about the “complex dance between exploitation and empowerment, and the question of what it really means to have control over your own life” (Naomi Ishiguro, author of Escape Routes).
Author : Angela Witczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647467326
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Life is a Circus written by Angela Witczak and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Micah Childress
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 162190394X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Circus Life written by Micah Childress and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the "Greatest Show on Earth." Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm--the "circus family." Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers' lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport and social history, Childress's account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular Entertainment Studies and American Studies.
Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233981
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Shows on Earth written by Linda Simon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “Step right up!” and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth—the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible—a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world. Traveling back to the circus’s early days, Linda Simon takes us to eighteenth-century hippodromes in Great Britain and intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted with aerialists and clowns. She introduces us to P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, and the enterprising Ringling Brothers and reveals how they created the golden age of American circuses. Moving forward to the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia and to New York City’s Big Apple Circus and the grand spectacle of Cirque du Soleil, she shows how the circus has transformed in recent years. At the center of the story are the people—trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns—that created the sensational, raucous, and sometimes titillating world of the circus.
Author : Marti D. Smye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550139778
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Is it Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? written by Marti D. Smye and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who has discovered that the rewards of corporate North America are not enough, here's an inspiring, practical blueprint for change. For many years, corporations have sought Marti Smye's advice on how to transform a company in a rapidly changing world. In conversations with CEOs, managers, employees and executives, she hears increasing rumblings of discontent from all levels. The common theme is: "I'm working more, enjoying it less, and not living the life I had in mind when I joined the workforce". Now Marti Smye shows all of us who've questioned where we are in our careers how to apply the lessons of corporate change to the task of personal change. By thinking of yourself as the CEO of a company with one employee - you - you can use the techniques of change management to find the fulfillment you thought was unobtainable. Filled with inspiring stories of those who have found happiness by following their dreams, concrete step-by-step advice, and a wealth of change theory adapted for the individual, Is It Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? provides a smart, savvy, practical and motivating program for personal and career change.
Author : Tiny Kline
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075102
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Circus Queen and Tinker Bell written by Tiny Kline and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-06-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable performers
Author : Thomas Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Circus Life and Circus Celebrities written by Thomas Frost and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Ellen Mark
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Circus written by Mary Ellen Mark and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mary Ellen Mark fell in love with the Indian circus in 1969, during her first trip to India. As she watched a huge hippopotamus walk around the ring with its mouth wide open, wearing a pink tutu, she was struck by the beauty and innocence of the show. She returned to India many times, and in 1989 and 1990 she devoted six months to photographing eighteen circuses, following them around the continent by train, plane, van, and auto-rickshaw. Secretive, highly competitive, and each a closed, self-sufficient society, the circuses embody what Mark calls "a poetry and a craziness that are still uncorrupted, and honest, and pure."" "Beautifully printed in tritone, this remarkable collection of photographs captures the texture of circus life outside of the ring - exhausting, humorous, poignant, and often bizarre - as well as the affection and devotion that the performers have for each other and their animals." "Indian Circus is documentary photography at its finest. The photographs are not only compelling portraits of the performers, but also eloquent and poetic narratives about life in the Indian circus."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Micah D. Childress
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621903958
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Circus Life written by Micah D. Childress and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular Entertainment Studies and American Studies.
Author : ARKARTDAMKEUNG RAPHEEPHAT
Publisher : Thaifiction Publishing
ISBN 13 : 2363820657
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (638 download)
Download or read book The circus of life written by ARKARTDAMKEUNG RAPHEEPHAT and published by Thaifiction Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat goes to study law in London in the early 1920s, only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter. In England, France, the US, Japan and China, their work and his fear of poverty and cultural incompatibility conspire to keep them apart and their love unfulfilled. When his eyesight fails him, he returns to Siam broke and broken-hearted. The Circus of Life is the first important Thai novel, providing unusual glimpses of the western world and Asia between the wars. Written by a young prince adroitly mixing fact and fiction, it created a storm when it was published in 1929 (the author killed himself three years later at the age of 26). Thanks to its classic craftsmanship, fast pace, lively tone and themes of alienation, absurdity and injustice in life, this pioneering work of fiction remains astonishingly modern.
Author : James Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book My Circus Life written by James Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Carroll O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780738813141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Life is a Circus written by Shirley Carroll O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this warm, informative, exciting and hilarious memoir, "Life is a Circus", Shirley Carroll O'Connor, takes you on the early adventures of the first woman publicist under the Big Top for Clyde Beatty,Cole Bros. and Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Circuses. When a blind date in 1945 resulted in marriage to a circus Ringmaster, she had no idea that she would be recounting stories of losing eight elephants on Hollywood Blvd, sharing a car with an uncaged leopard on her honeymoon, having an eight foot "giant" stuck in her back seat or counting as good friends circus and side-show performers like "The Sheep-headed Men", the "Flipper Boy", the "Two-faced Man", and "Lavonda", a full-sized head on a platter, families shot from cannons, aerialists, clowns and the "little" people, the midgets and dwarfs. In first hand accounts she provides humorous insight into a Circus era now long gone, and against this background is a warm love story that will appeal to readers of all ages. After 25 years with the circus, and the death of her husband, Shirley Carroll O'Connor's career took another direction when the agency she founded with her husband, The Carroll's Agency, Inc., handled publicity for some of the biggest rock stars & theatrical productions in show business. When you turn the last page of "Life is a Circus" you will feel as if you have laughed and shared memories with a "new best friend."
Author : William Carter Thompson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book On the Road With a Circus written by William Carter Thompson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Road With a Circus" by William Carter Thompson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350044156
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of the Circus written by Paul Bouissac and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights the experience of circus artists as their skills develop and mature into public performances that create aesthetic and emotional values in the modern economy of live spectacles. It scrutinizes the meaning that circus acts produce for the spectators and for the artists themselves who live this process from the inside. This is a book for those studying semiotics and wanting to see it applied to a real life milieu in accessible and passionate prose. The Meaning of the Circus is grounded on the personal experience of Professor Paul Bouissac as both a circus entrepreneur and a researcher with decades of primary material on the significance of past and contemporary circus acts. It is based on substantial accounts provided by many men and women who have agreed to share the challenges, joys, and anxieties of their life as artists. Personal and rigorous, it contributes to the hermeneutics of the circus arts by adding existential depth to the production and reception of their performances.
Author : Alexander Kuprin
Publisher : TSK Group LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Life is a Circus written by Alexander Kuprin and published by TSK Group LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background. This collection includes the following works: - Blondin - Allez! - Brickie - Anatoly Durov - Lolli - The Daughter of Great Barnum
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Life in the circus written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
