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Description edit
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by... read more
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First Sentence edit
The board.
Table of Contents edit
"A Game of Clue"
"Behind the Blue Curtain"
"The Barnum Museum"
"The Sepia Postcard"
"The Eight Voyage of Sinbad"
"Klassik Komix #1"
"Rain"
"Alice, Falling"
"The Intervention of Robert Herendeen"
"Eisenheim the Illusionist"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Steven Millhauser (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0671686402
Page Count: 237
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0671686402
Page Count: 237
Awards edit
- Pen/Faulkner Award (Finalist, 1991: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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