General Catalogue of Printed Books


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Modern Enchantments


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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?




Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama


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Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer







A Dictionary of Miracles


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The Colleen Bawn


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Reproduction of the original: The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault