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1	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist Martin Dressler works in his father's cigar store in 1890s Manhattan, where he learns the basics of business. He goes into hotel work--first as a bellhop, but eventually rising to own a hotel before he's 30. Alternating Martin's dreams with the day-to-day detail of his life, Millhauser evokes the business and personal world of turn-of-the-century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist The latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Eisenheim the Illusionist (the basis for the film "The Illusionist") is a dazzling collection of darkly comic stories, united by their obsession with obsession. see all copies from $3.78! new only from $8.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Knife Thrower & Other Stories more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist In these 12 stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Millhauser tells us that art is both necessary and dangerous. Included is a story about the famous 19th-century "wild child," Kaspar Hauser. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist 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 Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.84! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Edwin Mullhouse more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist This is a witty and elegiac novel in the form of a biography, from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. At the age of 2, Edwin Mullhouse was reciting Shakespeare. At 10, he had written a novel that critics would call a work of undoubted genius. At 11, Edwin Mullhouse was mysteriously dead. Documenting every stage of this brief kife was Jeffrey ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The King in the Tree: Three Novellas more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist Three novellas, all about love in some form: REVENGE, which takes place as a woman is showing a stranger around her house; AN ADVENTURE OF DON JUAN, in which the Don attempts a seduction in an English country house; and THE KING IN THE TREE, based on the story of Tristan and Yseult. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" come three novellas--works of fiction that create a poetry of the impossible and blithely cross the threshold between the "real" world and the imaginary landscapes of art. "As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as "Fantasia"".--"Entertainment Weekly". see all copies from $2.11! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
8	From the Realm of Morpheus by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist A mesmerizing tour of the human imagination, chronicling the adventures of a man who is taken on an enchanting tour of the underworld, guided by Morpheus himself. From the acclaimed author of Edwin Mullhouse. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
9	In the Penny Arcade more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Enchanted Night: A Novella more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist 'Five past twelve. Do you know where your children are?' One hot summer night in a small town in southern Connecticut, while the tide is still going out, Laura Engstrom, fourteen years old, is awakened by the moon streaming in her bedroom window. She isn't the only one to be disturbed by the rising moon. All across town, dreamers are awakening ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist This brilliant novel-as-biography examines the life and times of Edwin Mullhouse, a 10-year-old novelist who is hailed as a genius. At the age of 11, he mysteriously dies. Jeffrey Cartwright is Mullhouse's young Boswell, documenting every stage of Mullhouse's life from preverbal experiments with language to a love affair with comic books to his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Barnum Museum: Stories more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist "The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it. Other stories include: the tale of a bored ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The King in the Tree more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist Three novellas, all about love in some form: REVENGE, which takes place as a woman is showing a stranger around her house; AN ADVENTURE OF DON JUAN, in which the Don attempts a seduction in an English country house; and THE KING IN THE TREE, based on the story of Tristan and Yseult. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.92! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist From cartoons that draw their creator into another world, and demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own world to fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers...These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs with brilliant, often disquieting, effect in "Little Kingdoms". The three novellas ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Volume 26: Spring 2006, No. 1 by Steven Millhauser, John O'Brien (Editor) add to wishlist Over the past twenty-five years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts, and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.58! \| SVS
16	Portrait of a Romantic more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $197.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist This brilliant novel-as-biography examines the life and times of Edwin Mullhouse, a 10-year-old novelist who is hailed as a genius. At the age of 11, he mysteriously dies. Jeffrey Cartwright is Mullhouse's young Boswell, documenting every stage of Mullhouse's life from preverbal experiments with language to a love affair with comic books to his ... see all copies from $2.12! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18	Portrait of Romant by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist The critically acclaimed author of In the Penny Arcade and Edwin Millhouse delivers "an adolescent Picture of Dorian Gray...a brilliant, perverse eulogy for American boyhood" (Boston Globe). see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	In the Penny Arcad by Steven Miller, Steven Millhauser add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Enchanted Night more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town on one magical summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and leave notes, a dreamlike lover on a backyard swing, and a beautiful mannequin who steps down from her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
21	La Vie Trop Brëve D'Edwin Mulhouse by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist see all copies from $43.64! new only from $43.64!
22 view cover	Martin Dressler more books like this by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist Martin Dressler has a dream that will come true at a very high cost. A small mistake may spoil everything. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $28.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Nuit Enchantèe by Steven Millhauser add to wishlist see all copies from $61.53! new only from $61.53!
24	Musee Barnum (Le) by Millhauser Steven add to wishlist see all copies from $70.75! new only from $70.75!
25	Galerie Des Jeux (La) by Millhauser Steven add to wishlist see all copies from $70.75! new only from $70.75!

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