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"Mazirian the Magician" is a sword and sorcery short story by American writer Jack Vance. It was first published in 1950 as part of The Dying Earth, a collection of loosely linked tales. It has been reissued in numerous anthologies since 1965, including The Spell of Seven, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. [1]
The Magician explains why the wymps would do such a thing and tells them where they have to go to try to get the wymps to reverse what they did, Wympland, and how they were to get there. The Magician then sends the children to Wympland on a flash of lightning. The King and Eyebright, now in Wympland, look around and find a wymp to talk to.
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a 1962 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents featuring Brandon deWilde as mentally-troubled youth Hugo, coveting the magic wand of a kindly magician. The poem's story is alluded to in several episodes of the fairy-tale drama Once Upon a Time, especially in "The Apprentice" (2014). A variation of the Dukas piece ...
The book tells the story of Sonea, a young girl from the slums, as she discovers her magical potential. When she hurls a stone through a magical barrier, accidentally injuring a magician behind it, Sonea finds herself on the run from the powerful Magicians' Guild. The magicians must find her before her uncontrolled and untrained powers kill her ...
The Magician's Wife, published in 1997, was the last novel [1] by the Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore.Set in 1856, [2] it tells the story of a famous French magician (based on the real-life Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin) [3] who is despatched by Emperor Napoleon III to help France subdue the Arab population in war-torn Algeria.
Short & Sweet: A shorter story but gets you to the action quick! Long & Complete: Full story with all the great details! This Strategy Guide uses the "Casual" and "Long & Complete" Settings.
Mario and the Magician (German: Mario und der Zauberer) is a novella written by German author Thomas Mann in 1929. It was published by Martin Secker in 1930 in an English translation by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter , and her translation was included in Thomas Mann's Stories of Three Decades , published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1936.