The Magician of Vienna

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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920497
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The Magician of Vienna by : Sergio Pitol

Download or read book The Magician of Vienna written by Sergio Pitol and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.

The Magician from Vienna

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495976018
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The Magician from Vienna by : Jurgen Kleist

Download or read book The Magician from Vienna written by Jurgen Kleist and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action in "The Magician from Vienna" takes place in Vienna in 1777, as the city is going through similar rumors, anxieties and upheavals as Paris where soon the Revolution will change everything. In the nerve centers of power, one reacts rather skittishly to all scandals and sensations of any kind. The Magic Healer Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer is traveling with his black coach through country and cities, heals people for free, and proclaims the coming of a new universal harmony. Vienna's physicians don't like the sound of such talk and action. They are interested in neutralizing Mesmer and his theory of "animal magnetism." During a sting operation, the Secret Police apprehends the young aristocrat Jean-Theo von Vogelauer who makes money by trading girls. The Police forces him to find Mesmer and to eliminate him. But the real catastrophe happens when Mesmer tries to heal a blind woman with his magic powers...

Magic in Vienna

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459239652
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Book Synopsis Magic in Vienna by : Betty Neels

Download or read book Magic in Vienna written by Betty Neels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rather dull girl…with no looks to speak of.” Doctor Charles Trescombe’s opinion of his niece’s governess was far from complimentary. Cordelia knew she was plain. She also knew what good manners were, and the high-and-mighty doctor didn’t have any! But there was magic in Vienna that could transform even the most unlikely people. Much to her dismay, Cordelia fell in love with him anyway. And Charles soon discovered that quiet and unassuming ways had a knack for stealing a man’s heart—without him even realizing it.

The Illusionist

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Publisher : Holt Rinehart & Winston
ISBN 13 : 9780030707797
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Illusionist by : Anita Mason

Download or read book The Illusionist written by Anita Mason and published by Holt Rinehart & Winston. This book was released on 1984 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is what it seems.In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician (Norton) uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing. Director Neil Burger's screen adaptation of Steven Millhauser's short story 'Eisenheim the Illusionist'. Eisenheim (Edward Norton) is a magician in early 1900's Vienna, who falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to a Crown Prince, Eisenheim uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

Magic in Vienna

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ISBN 13 : 9780263108842
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Magic in Vienna by : Betty Neels

Download or read book Magic in Vienna written by Betty Neels and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magician

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Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385733585
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis The Magician by : Michael Scott

Download or read book The Magician written by Michael Scott and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Magic in Vienna

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Magic in Vienna written by Amelie van Tass and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vienna Paradox

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215725
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book The Vienna Paradox written by Marjorie Perloff and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814513
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Book Synopsis Fin-De-Siecle Vienna by : Carl E. Schorske

Download or read book Fin-De-Siecle Vienna written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

The Art of Flight

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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920063
Total Pages : 425 pages
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Download or read book The Art of Flight written by Sergio Pitol and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

Time of the Magicians

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052555968X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis Time of the Magicians by : Wolfram Eilenberger

Download or read book Time of the Magicians written by Wolfram Eilenberger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street Journal A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, in search of spiritual clarity. Meanwhile, Heidegger, having managed to avoid combat in war by serving as a meteorologist, is carefully cultivating his career. Finally, Cassirer is working furiously on the margins of academia, applying himself to his writing and the possibility of a career at Hamburg University. The stage is set for a great intellectual drama, which will unfold across the next decade. The lives and ideas of this extraordinary philosophical quartet will converge as they become world historical figures. But as the Second World War looms on the horizon, their fates will be very different.

Magic In Vienna (Betty Neels Collection)

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Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460891953
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Magic In Vienna (Betty Neels Collection) written by Betty Neels and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills & Boon presents the Betty Neels collection. Timeless tales of heart–warming romance by one of the world's best–loved romance authors. A rather dull girl with no looks to speak of. Doctor Charles Trescombe's opinion of his niece's governess was far from complimentary. Cordelia knew she was plain. She also knew what good manners were, and the high–andmighty doctor didn't have any! But there was magic in Vienna that could transform even the most unlikely people. Much to her dismay, Cordelia fell in love with him anyway. And Charles soon discovered that quiet and unassuming ways had a knack for stealing a man's heart–without him even realising it.

Vienna Dreams

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Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440195306
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Vienna Dreams written by Janette Radcliffe and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Magic of Christian of Vienna, Austria

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Book Synopsis The Magic of Christian of Vienna, Austria by : Christian Stelzel

Download or read book The Magic of Christian of Vienna, Austria written by Christian Stelzel and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journey

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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920195
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis The Journey by : Sergio Pitol

Download or read book The Journey written by Sergio Pitol and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sergio Pitol is not only our best active storyteller, he is also the bravest renovator of our literature."—Álvaro Enrigue in Letras Libres "Pitol is probably one of Mexico's most culturally complex and composite writers. He is certainly the strangest, most unfathomable, and eccentric. . . . [His] voice . . . reverberates beyond the margins of his books."—Valeria Luiselli, author of Faces in the Crowd "Reading him, one has the impression . . . of being before the greatest writer in the Spanish language in our time."—Enrique Vila-Matas The Journey features one of the world's master storytellers at work as he skillfully recounts two weeks of travel around the Soviet Union in 1986. From the first paragraph, Sergio Pitol dislocates the sense of reality, masterfully and playfully blurring the lines between fiction and fact. This adventurous story, based on the author's own travel journals, parades through some of the territories that the author lived in and traveled through (Prague, the Caucasus, Moscow, Leningrad) as he reflects on the impact of Russia's sacred literary pantheon in his life and the power that literature holds over us all. The Journey, the second work in Pitol's remarkable "Trilogy of Memory" (which Deep Vellum is publishing in its entirety), which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 2005 and inspired the newest generation of Spanish-language writers, represents the perfect example of one of the world's greatest authors at the peak of his power.

Herrmann the Magician

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Book Synopsis Herrmann the Magician by : Hardin J. Burlingame

Download or read book Herrmann the Magician written by Hardin J. Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magician of the Modern

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030776124X
Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book Magician of the Modern written by Eugene R. Gaddis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars. The first in the United States to mount a major Picasso retrospective, Austin was soon acquiring works by Dalí, Mondrian, Miró, Balthus, Max Ernst, and Alexander Calder. In the museum's new theater (which he designed), he staged the premiere of the revolutionary Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts (with an all-black cast). At Lincoln Kirstein's instigation, he brought Balanchine to America. And he embraced all the new art forms, making film, photography, architecture, and contemporary music part of the life of his museum. For his own family he built a Palladian villa (now a recently restored national historic landmark), filling it with the baroque and the Bauhaus and inviting all the locals in to see how it felt to be modern. Austin's instinct for quality proved infallible. Whether acquiring a matchless Caravaggio or a startling Dalí, he balanced the old masters with the modern. Mounting provocative shows that linked the past to the present, he created dramatic installations--and he threw himself into everything, hanging fabrics, creating backdrops, stitching up costumes. He loved to teach, to paint, to act, to give lavish costume balls, and to dazzle audiences of all ages with his performances as a magician, the Great Osram. Brilliant at using his magician's sleight of hand, he could manipulate his conservative trustees to get what he wanted--but only up to a point. One more purchase of an incomprehensible abstract canvas, one outrageous party too many, one more shocking theatrical role, eventually led to a crisis. Never one to be idle for long, Austin left Hartford and took on a new challenge--to make an artistic triumph of the pink-and-white palace in Sarasota, Florida, known as the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which housed the circus king's moldering but magnificent collection. Here is the colorful life of Chick Austin, and as we relish his audacious career--the risks he took, the successes he enjoyed along with the inevitable setbacks--we understand what a far-reaching influence he had on the way Americans look at and think about art. Not only a brilliant portrait of an extraordinary man, this wonderfully American story gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the art world as it was then--and in many ways still is today.