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The Right Way to Do Wrong

Harry Houdini Teller

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English
Melville House Publishing
30 October 2012
Series: Neversink
One of the most intriguing and recognized figures of the twentieth century conducts a masterclass in subversion

Part expose, part instruction manual, The Right Way to Do Wrong features history's most famous illusionist revealing the methods of deception involved in everything from burglary, to pickpocketing, to swindles, forgery and tricks.

Along the way, he also debunks the secrets of his own and other conjurers' tricks, including rope escape methods such as the Russian Transport Tie, instrumental in the famous stunt in which Houdini escaped a Siberian prison truck. Also disclosed are the secrets of fire-eating, sword-swallowing and strongmen.

Although remembered more for his spectacular stunts of escapism and magic, Houdini was as clever and nimble a writer as he was a magician, and surprisingly revealing of trade secrets! All of which makes The Right Way to Do Wrong both the ultimate anti-etiquette guide and proof that things are not always as they seem.

ebook ISBN- 978-1-61219-167-6
By:  
Introduction by:  
Imprint:   Melville House Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   164g
ISBN:   9781612191669
ISBN 10:   1612191665
Series:   Neversink
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

HARRY HOUDINI (born Erik Weisz, 1874-1926) was a Hungarian-born American escapologist, magician, stuntman, actor and film producer, and one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century. Towards the end of his career he focused his energies on debunking spiritualists and mediums, and on the ethics of magic and illusion. TELLER (Introduction) is one half of magic and comedy duo Penn & Teller. He is the author of When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours- Joe Teller-A Portrait By His Kid and, with Penn Jillette, of How to Play in Traffic, How to Play with Your Food and Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends. TV credits include the series Penn & Teller- Bullshit!, in which, like Houdini, the duo set out to debunk common beliefs.

Reviews for The Right Way to Do Wrong

Houdini was the scourge of spiritualists. -The Wall Street Journal There is no trick of the recognized masters, from Cagliostro's magic mirror to Kellar's Hindoo lamp and Maskelyne and Devant's Haunted Window, that Houdini did not succeed in fathoming and, when he liked, duplicating. -The New York Times He was the wonder of the world in an old world hungry for wonders. . . He was the embodiment of something incredible. . . He came to represent the sum of all amazements. -The Guardian A master of cunning and endurance. -NPR He remains a mystery. His naivete and his shrewdness, his shyness and his exhibitionism, his kindness and his unforgiving antagonisms proclaim a complicated and unknowable man. -New York Review of Books He seemed to express in his whole being and in his whole deportment: 'I am who I am. I am the greatest. I am Harry Houdini.' -E.L. Doctorow Houdini is a witty writer and writes unselfconsciously about subjects that surely would have scandalized his contemporaries. -Reference and Research Book News


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