Magicians
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Magicians -- Biography
- Magicians -- Drama
- Magicians -- Fiction
- Magicians -- France
- Magicians -- History
- Magicians -- Juvenile fiction
- Magicians -- Periodicals
- Magicians -- United States
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
- Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
- Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871
- Conjurers
- Conjurors
- Enchanters
- Illusionists (Magicians)
- Legerdemainists
- Sorcerers
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The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)- Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text)
- Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)
- Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay (in Portuguese; Rio De Janeiro: Typ. Villas-Bôas, 1901), by Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
- The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Romance of Sorcery (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
- A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Doctor Faustus (multiple versions), by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)
- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (based on the 1604 quarto, with some later amendments and footnotes), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 quarto), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
- The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
- Hermes Beckons: A Tale of Alchemy and Magic (c2006), by John Caris (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The King of the Conjurors (London: J. Blackwood and Co., n.d.), by James Skipp Borlase (multiple formats at Google)
- Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
- Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Frank Merriwell's Own Company: or, Barnstorming in the Middle West (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)
- Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1959), by William Lindsay Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
- The Famous Houdini: The Original Jail Breaker and Hand Cuff King (ca. 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
- Cousin Ann's Stories for Children (Philadelphia: J. M. McKim, 1849), by Ann Preston (page images at bsu.edu)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Tricksters- The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
- The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
- The Birth of Merlin: or, The Childe Hath Found His Father, by William Rowley (HTML at Rochester)
- The Birth of Merlin: or, The Childe Hath Found His Father (this edition attributed to Shakespeare (dubiously) and Rowley; London: Printed by T. Johnson for F. Kirkman and H. Marsh, 1662), by William Rowley, contrib. by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old Nathan (1991), by David Drake (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)
- Spell of Catastrophe (with other work from the same series), by Mayer Alan Brenner (multiple formats at mayerbrenner.com)
- The Wizardry Compiled, by Rick Cook (HTML at Baen Books)
- Wizard's Bane, by Rick Cook (HTML at Baen Books)
- Spirits White as Lightning (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
- Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
- The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde, and Other Stories (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Mary De Morgan, illust. by Walter Crane
- The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde, and Other Stories (London: Macmillan and Co., 1886), by Mary De Morgan, illust. by Walter Crane
- The Brown Owl: A Fairy Story (New York: Cassell, 1892), by Ford Madox Ford, illust. by Ford Madox Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
- The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- Edwin Booth As I Knew Him (New York: The Players, 1933), by Edwin Milton Royle (page images at HathiTrust)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.