Performing Arts
Herrmann's Book of Magic
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Alexander Herrmann
Black Art Fully Exposed.A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs, including a complete …
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (Version 2)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
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Harry Houdini
"A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowe…
Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners
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Theodore Dreiser
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…
Stories From Wagner
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J. Walker McSpadden
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Ta…
Just Me
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Pearl White
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Louis Hoffman
This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…