The Barnum Museum

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564786715

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The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser Pdf

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman—and loses her to an imaginary man!—and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured. Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in The Barnum Museum will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next.

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0752824422

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The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser Pdf

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501118715

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Barnum by Robert Wilson Pdf

“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.

Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375841972

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The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum by Candace Fleming Pdf

Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman! The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life biography of showman P. T. Barnum. Known far and wide for his jumbo elephants, midgets, and three-ring circuses, here’ s a complete and captivating look at the man behind the Greatest Show on Earth. Readers can visit Barnum’s American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 inches tall) and his tinier bride (32 inches); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum’s legacy to the 19th century and beyond. Drawing on old circus posters, photographs, etchings, ticket stubs—and with incredible decorative art by Ray Fenwick—this book presents history as it’s never been experienced before—a show-stopping event!

Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547717942

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Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by P. T. Barnum Pdf

"Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum" by P. T. Barnum. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat 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 DigiCat 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 : Tom Streissguth
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766030229

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P. T. Barnum by Tom Streissguth Pdf

"Explores the life of showman P. T. Barnum, including his start as an entrepreneur, creating the American Museum, building and losing his fortune, and introducing the three-ring circus to America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Circus owners
ISBN : HARVARD:HB0B9S

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The Life of P.T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum Pdf

Author : Barnum's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.),Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Albinos and albinism
ISBN : OCLC:85225498

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Last Week of P.T. Barnum's Museum of Living Wonders! by Barnum's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.),Phineas Taylor Barnum Pdf

Author : Bluford Adams
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816626316

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E Pluribus Barnum by Bluford Adams Pdf

The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective. Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence us today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, Adams demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American Museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theater are examined, as well as the later circuses. Adams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S. society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism, immigration, and capitalism, and considers his career as a crucial moment in the on-going struggle over the politics of U.S. commercial entertainments.

Author : Lowell Dingus,Mark Norell
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520272613

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Barnum Brown by Lowell Dingus,Mark Norell Pdf

From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873–1963), spending most of it searching for fossils—and sometimes oil—in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown—who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies’ man—became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown’s field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels—from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown’s extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.

Author : Stacy Carlson
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781586421878

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Among the Wonderful by Stacy Carlson Pdf

Beautifully evocative and full of heart, this stunning work of historical fiction tells the story of Manhattan’s fabled American Museum In 1842, Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum’s museum, with its human wonders and extraordinary live animal menagerie, rises to become not only the nation’s most popular attraction, but also a catalyst that ushers America out of a culture of glassed-in exhibits and into the modern age of entertainment. In this kaleidoscopic setting, the stories of two compelling characters are brought to life. Emile Guillaudeu is the museum’s grumpy taxidermist, who is horrified by the chaotic change Barnum brings to his beloved institution. Ana Swift is a professional giantess plagued by chronic pain and jaded by a world of gawkers. The differences between these two are many: one is isolated and spends his working hours making dead things look alive, while the other has people pushing against her, and reacting to her, every day. But they both move toward change, one against his will—propelled by a paradigm shift happening whether he likes it or not, and the other because she is struggling to survive. In many shapes and forms, metamorphosis is at the core of Among the Wonderful. Pursuing this theme, the book weaves a world where upper Manhattan is still untrammeled wilderness, the Five Points is at the height of its bloody glory, and within the walls of Barnum’s museum, ancient tribal feuds play out in the midst of an unlikely community of marvels. “An engaging novel from newcomer Stacy Carlson. The great strength of this book is Carlson's evocation of time and place.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819573322

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Becoming Tom Thumb by Eric D. Lehman Pdf

An “evocative and entertaining” biography of the nineteenth century circus performer who became a global phenomenon (Neil Harris, author of Humbug). When P. T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum’s promotional skills and the miniature Stratton’s comedic talents, they charmed a Who’s Who of the nineteenth century, from Queen Victoria to Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln. Adored worldwide as “General Tom Thumb,” Stratton played to sold-out shows for almost forty years. From his days as a precocious child star to his tragic early death, Becoming Tom Thumb tells the full story of this iconic figure for the first time. It details his triumphs on the New York stage, his epic celebrity wedding, and his around-the-world tour, drawing on newly available primary sources and interviews. From the mansions of Paris to the deserts of Australia, Stratton’s unique brand of Yankee comedy not only earned him the accolades of millions of fans, it helped move little people out of the side show and into the limelight.

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307701435

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We Others by Steven Millhauser Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edison’s laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest to the stunning, previously unpublished novella-length title story—in which a man who is dead, but not quite gone, reaches out to two lonely women—Millhauser in this magnificent collection carves out ever more deeply his wondrous place in the American literary canon.

Author : Trav Sd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578847078

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Rose's Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville by Trav Sd Pdf

Hardcover, Color edition. A treasure trove of vintage postcards and photographs accompanied by the history of the unique "Rose's Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville".

Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486824758

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Barnum's Own Story by P. T. Barnum Pdf

Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty. In this classic of self-accusation and self-justification, he reveals the stories behind his hoaxes and publicity stunts. Illustrations throughout.