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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
- 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.
Writer Jerome Charyn and artist François Boucq combine their talents to recount a surrealistic tale about the wife of a philandering magician and her struggles with terrifying demons, both real and imaginary.
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27 lug 2015 · Emmeline Lambert is the quietly unhappy wife of an almost hermetic magician; her husband suddenly becomes ambitious again when invited by the emperor and his wife to spend a week among royalty. Henri, the magician, is asked to go to Algeria to perform his magic in an attempt to awe the natives, and Emmeline accompanies him but ...
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1 gen 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.
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- Brian Moore
In The Magician's Wife, Cain returns to his classic themes of lust and greed. Clay Lockwood, a business executive, falls in love with the irresistible Sally Alexis, wife of a professional magician.
The Magician's Wife. By BRIAN MOORE Dutton. Read the Review. THE COLONEL LEFT THE HOUSE AT FIVE O'CLOCK. AS his carriage drove out towards the main gates Emmeline put down her petit point and...
