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The Circus Series begins with Mr Galliano's Circus, where the protagonist is Jimmy Brown. The story starts with how Jimmy and his parents join the circus, where Jimmy's Dad gets a job as a handyman. Then Jimmy's affinity with animals brings into his life 'Lucky' the dog. The story revolves around Jimmy, his parents, his dog Lucky and the others ...
Clyde Raymond Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a cage boy and spent the next four decades rising to fame as one of the most famous circus performers and animal trainers in the world. Through his career, the circus impresario owned ...
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.
OCLC. 61362217. Dewey Decimal. 813/.6 22. LC Class. PS3607.R696 W38 2006. Water for Elephants is a 2006 historical romance novel by Canadian–American author Sara Gruen. The novel is set in a 20th-century circus. Gruen wrote the book as part of the National Novel Writing Month. [1][2]
The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. in 1907 following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged ...
Rupert Croft-Cooke was born on 20 June 1903, in Edenbridge, Kent, [2] the son of Hubert Bruce Cooke, who worked in the London Stock Exchange, and his wife Lucy, a daughter of Dr. Alfred Taylor, [3] and was educated at Tonbridge School and Wellington College. At the age of seventeen, he was working as a private tutor in Paris.
Time' s List of the 100 Best Novels (2005) [ 1 ] NPR 's 100 Years, 100 Novels (2009) [ 4 ] (2) Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1998) [ 2 ] The Daily Telegraph 's 100 Novels Everyone Should Read [ 5 ] The Guardian' s 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015) [ 3 ] Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century (1999) [ 6 ]
Signature. Website. www.raybradbury.com. Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈbrædbɛri / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.