Circus Days
Author | : Edith Maida Lessing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Circus |
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Author | : Edith Maida Lessing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Circus |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Ade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
A photographic documentation of the Beatty-Cole Circus, recording and portraying the customs, activities, animals, and singular personalities of an endangered way of life.
Author | : Cathy Day |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2005-07-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547864566 |
Over a half century, a small Indiana town hosts a circus troupe during the off-seasons in linked stories “as graceful as any acrobat’s high-wire act” (San Francisco Chronicle). A Story Prize Finalist From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima, an elephant can change the course of a man's life—or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show’s manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. In this collection of linked stories spanning decades, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page. “[An] exquisite story collection.” —The Washington Post “Often funny, always graceful, and rich with a mix of historical and imaginative detail.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Sublimely imaginative and affecting.” —The Boston Globe
Author | : Freeman H. Hubbard |
Publisher | : New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Meredith Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Paintings, prints, drawings, posters, photographs, and narrative create the excitement of a circus's coming to town.
Author | : Eleanor Coerr |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2012-06-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462908462 |
This multicultural children's book contains both English and Japanese script along with beautiful, colorful illustrations. Circus Day in Japan is the warmly-illustrated story of an exciting day spent by two Japanese children, Joji-chan and Koko-chan, at a circus. Joji-chan and Koko-chan delight at the new sights of their first circus, and young readers are gently introduced to Japanese customs and sites. Perfect for those interested in retro books, the simple text and artwork provide a nostalgic window into Japanese family life in the early 1950s. Originally written by Eleanor Coerr, author of the popular Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, this English translation of a classic Japanese children's book accessible to a new generation of both English and Japanese speaking readers.
Author | : Enid Blyton |
Publisher | : Hodder Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2016-06-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444930125 |
A classic selection of stories to read and share by one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton. Mr Galliano's famous circus has come to town! Join young Jimmy Brown and his family as they enter a thrilling world of incredible animals, colourful clowns and daring acrobats. Meet cheeky chimps, kindly elephants, fearsome tigers and one very special little dog called Lucky, as Jimmy discovers what it takes to become part of Mr Galliano's Circus. This book was previously published as The Circus Collection. It comprises three full-length books: Mr. Galliano's Circus (1938), Hurrah for the Circus! (1939) and Circus Days Again (1942), containing 26 stories in total.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Circus |
ISBN | : 9780517520093 |
A photographic documentation of the Beatty-Cole Circus, recording and portraying the customs, activities, animals, and singular personalities of an endangered way of life.
Author | : Micah D. Childress |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-08-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1621903958 |
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 | : Robert Lax |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1468307665 |
Though many hold him to be one of the greatest American poets of this century, Lax has maintained a low profile, living and writing in seclusion on the Greek island of Patmos. In Circus Days & Nights, Lax's three great long poems on the circus—“Circus of the Sun,†? “Mogador's Book,†? and “Sunset City†?—are collected together for the first time, placing this early masterwork in the position within American literature that it so richly deserves. Each of the three poems in this collection expresses a reverence for the acts of daring, beauty, and grace that make the circus the singular event it is. What also emerges is the drawing of a link between this world of the circus—wherein a tent is erected, acts are performed, and then the tent is disassembled only to be re-erected the next day—and Lax's faith. As Denise Levertov has said, “the radiant security of Lax’s faith appears in his work as a serenity of tone.†?