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The Magician's Wife, published in 1997, was the last novel by the Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in 1856, it tells the story of a famous French magician (based on the real-life Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin) who is despatched by Emperor Napoleon III to help France subdue the Arab population in war-torn Algeria. Reception
- Brian Moore
- 215
- 1997
- 1997
The Magician's Wife is a novel by James M. Cain published in 1965 by Dial Press. In plot and theme, the work is a near facsimile of Cain's 1934 critical and popular success, The Postman Always Rings Twice.
- United States
- James M. Cain
- English
- Hardboiled novel
Just as she had feared, the others in the carriage were aristocrats whose every glance in her direction seemed to warn that despite Madame Cournet's coaching and Monsieur West's elaborate toilette she would remain for them beyond the pale, a doctor's daughter, half educated in a Rouennais convent, provincial beyond redemption, and, despite his fame and pretensions, the wife of a person who ...
The Magician's Wife. Brian Moore. 3.10. 962 ratings136 reviews. Although her husband strives to satisfy the wishes of his emperor, Napoleon III, while living in North Africa, his wife Emmeline loses her desire to follow his lead and follows her new destiny despite her husband's wishes. Reprint.
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15 de ene. de 2013 · The Magician's Wife. James M. Cain. Overamstel Uitgevers, Jan 15, 2013 - Fiction. For the love of a beautiful waitress, a meat salesman will turn butcher. Clay Lockwood enters the Portico...
- James M. Cain
- Overamstel Uitgevers, 2013
- 9049982271, 9789049982270
- The Magician's Wife
17 de abr. de 2018 · The Magician's Wife: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Brian Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.7 43 ratings. See all formats and editions. The restless wife of an illusionist becomes embroiled in a North African holy war in this “tour de force” of historical fiction (The New York Times).
- Brian Moore
1 de ene. de 1998 · The Magician’s Wife follows Emmeline and her husband Henri as they are summoned by Napoleon III and subsequently sent to Algeria to help the French conquest of the country. The story is based loosely on the life of real life French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin who, in 1856, was sent to Algeria to show the leaders of the ...
- Hardcover
- Brian Moore
