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Nights at the Circus is a novel by British writer Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and the winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents ...
- Angela Carter
- 1984
Jul 31, 2019 · The movie adaptation of Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern has been in development for a long time, but does seem to slowly be making progress. Here’s what we know: What’s it about? What’s the plot? In The Night Circus, two magicians are engaged in a rivalry that takes place via their proteges.
- Erin Morgenstern
- 2011
Jun 30, 2020 · The 2011 fantasy novel The Night Circus is clearly modeled on Canada’s Cirque du Soleil. The book’s setting is a touring circus that is only accessible by night and is called Le Cirque des...
Oct 7, 2011 · In Erin Morgenstern’s historical novel, two lovestruck magicians are engaged in a battle of imagination and will.
NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS. Half-serious, half-silly, consistently stylish if only fitfully amusing: a farcical picaresque (London to Russia) about an 1899 touring circus--with Carter's usual feminist themes poking and darting just below the frolicsome surface.
- Kirkus Reviews
The Night Circus is a phantasmagorical fairy tale set near an ahistorical Victorian London in a wandering, magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. Le Cirque des Rêves (The Circus of Dreams) features exhibitions such as illusionists, fortune-tellers, and attractions that defy the laws of physics and reality.
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At the Circus is a 1939 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Harpo and Chico) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The film contains Groucho Marx 's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady".
