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The Night Circus

Author: Erin Morgenstern

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0385534647

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Semiotics at the Circus

Author: Paul Bouissac

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3110218291

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Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.

Eddie and Ellie's Opposites at the Circus

Author: Daniel Nunn

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1410991474

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Learn all about opposites with illustratedÊelephant duo, Eddie and Ellie. These curious elephants explore the world around them together, but somehow always end up liking opposite things!Ê Illustrated with vibrant photographs of different circus acts combined with playful illustrations of Eddie and Ellie, this book is sure to be a popular choice!

Billy Whiskers at the Circus

Author: Frances Trego Montgomery

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13:

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In this children's story, Billy Whiskers, the big white bearded Billy Goat who lives at Clover leaf Farm, has an adventure at the circus when it comes to town. There, he encounters many strange animals and people that he has never seen before. He is also the subject of a kidnapping attempt, but manages to get away with the help of the monkeys who have become his friends. Afterwards he said it was the best time of his life and loved to talk about it. The author, Frances Trego Montgomery said that she got the ideas for her books by inviting groups of children to her house "between dinner and their bedtime."

The Circus Surprise

Author: Ralph J. Fletcher

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780395980293

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When he gets lost at the circus, Nick is helped by a clown on stilts, who shows him the whole circus and helps him find his parents.

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Author: Linda Simon

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1780233981

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Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “Step right up!” and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth—the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible—a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world. Traveling back to the circus’s early days, Linda Simon takes us to eighteenth-century hippodromes in Great Britain and intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted with aerialists and clowns. She introduces us to P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, and the enterprising Ringling Brothers and reveals how they created the golden age of American circuses. Moving forward to the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia and to New York City’s Big Apple Circus and the grand spectacle of Cirque du Soleil, she shows how the circus has transformed in recent years. At the center of the story are the people—trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns—that created the sensational, raucous, and sometimes titillating world of the circus.

The circus. Ediz. inglese, italiana e spagnola

Author: Fred Dahlinger

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 888

ISBN-13: 9783836542333

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CIRCUS. At its heyday, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show, employed as many as 1,600 men and women, and crisscrossed the country on 20,000 miles of railroad in one season alone. The spectacle of death-defying daredevils, strapping super-heroes and scantily-clad starlets, fearless animal trainers, and startling "freaks" gripped the American imagination, outshining theater, vaudeville, comedy, and minstrel shows. This book sheds fresh light on the circus phenomenon. With photographic gems of early circus performers, as well as original posters, lightographs, sideshow banners and engravings from the 16th-19th centuries illustrating the worldwide roots of the circus, readers are transported to a world of thrill and skill, grit and glamor.

Here Comes the Circus [With Sticker(s)]

Author:

Publisher: Golden Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 0375851100

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All the excitement and magic of the circus comes alive in this activity book based on a very special episode of The Wonder Pets. It features two fullcolor, fold-out play scenes, reusable stickers, write-on/wipe-off activities, and 16 pages of adorable animal antics to color.