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9781592287406

The Greatest Circus Stories Ever Told; Amazing Stories of Life Under the Big Top

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  • ISBN13:

    9781592287406

  • ISBN10:

    1592287409

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2005-12-01
  • Publisher: Lyons Press
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Summary

A collection of stories from the earliest circus to the most modern. Author Stephen Vincent Brennan has worked as a circus clown, book editor, teacher, cabaret artist, actor, director, sheepherder and playwright. He is the editor of Classic Adventure Stories, Classic Exploration Stories, The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told, and Classic American Hero Stories. He is now an actor and director with the Theater Wing of the Kaufman Center in New York City.

Author Biography

Stephen Vincent Brennan has worked as a circus clown, book editor, teacher, cabaret artist, actor, director, sheephearder and playwright. He is the editor of Classic Adventure Stories, Classic Exploration Stories, The Greatest Cowboy Stories Ever Told, and Classic American Hero Stories. He is now an actor and director with the Theater Wing of the Kaufman Center in New York City, where he lives with his wife, his daughter, and his son.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. ix
Fifty Years with a Menageriep. 3
Those Press Agents! from Under the Big Topp. 21
Toby Tyler chapters 1-7, from Toby Tyler-Or Ten Weeks with a Circusp. 41
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circusp. 81
The Circus Ladyp. 107
Razorbacks and Skin Games from Here We Are Againp. 131
When the Animals Escapep. 145
Circus Day at Mancos from The Red-Blooded Heros of the Frontierp. 161
Inside the Training Den from Lions 'N' Tigers 'N' Everythingp. 177
The Elephant People from The Ways of the Circusp. 201
Albany, New York from Cat Manp. 225
On the High Wirep. 241
The Other Side of the Circusp. 285
Permissions Acknowledgmentsp. 301
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