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Carnival Books
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 153,530 ratings — published 1962
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 868,716 ratings — published 2016
Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 72,836 ratings — published 1989
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 452,710 ratings — published 2018
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,095,727 ratings — published 2011
Finale (Caraval, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 375,482 ratings — published 2019
Joyland (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 178,697 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Burning City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 7,151 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Speculation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 38,879 ratings — published 2015
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,698,720 ratings — published 2006
Hollow Hellion (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,022 ratings — published 2024
Carnival Nightmare (Carnival #1)
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avg rating 3.43 — 8,429 ratings — published 2024
No Place to Hide (Havoc's Playground, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 20,498 ratings — published 2023
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
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avg rating 4.01 — 140,153 ratings — published 2002
Carnival Stalker (Carnival #4)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,978 ratings — published
Carnival Monster (Carnival #3)
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avg rating 3.83 — 4,799 ratings — published
By a Charm and a Curse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 704 ratings — published 2018
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 21,979 ratings — published 2009
Carnival Obsession (Carnival #2)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,581 ratings — published
The Midnight Fair (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,005 ratings — published 2021
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 56,916 ratings — published 2014
Carnival Mayhem (Carnival #6)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,149 ratings — published
Carnival Master (Carnival #5)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,091 ratings — published
His Revelry (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,644 ratings — published 2021
The Spark in You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 125 ratings — published
Leap For It (A Monster Romance Novella) (The Carnival of Curiosities Book 10)
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avg rating 3.96 — 152 ratings — published
Carnival Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow #2)
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avg rating 4.38 — 2,925 ratings — published
Love, Lah Lah (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.67 — 98 ratings — published
Satan's Affair (Cat and Mouse, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.71 — 149,941 ratings — published 2021
The Contortionist (Harrow Faire, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 5,846 ratings — published 2020
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards, #1)
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avg rating 3.64 — 9,884 ratings — published 2020
Twilight Eyes (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 28,000 ratings — published 1985
Circus of the Dead: Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,318 ratings — published 2019
Freak Show (Harem of Freaks, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,601 ratings — published 2018
Rewrite the Stars (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,035 ratings — published 2018
Menagerie (Menagerie, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 6,266 ratings — published 2015
Full Tilt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 9,778 ratings — published 2003
Malaika’s Costume (The Malaika Series, 1)
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avg rating 3.87 — 239 ratings — published 2016
The Funhouse (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 24,738 ratings — published 1980
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,510 ratings — published 2015
The Traveling Man (Traveling, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,079 ratings — published 2015
Conjured (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 3,234 ratings — published 2013
Carniepunk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 3,167 ratings — published 2013
Venice: Art & Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 74 ratings — published 1999
Carnival Shadows (Carnival #7)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,002 ratings — published
À La Folie (Cirque Du Désir, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,312 ratings — published 2024
Circus Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,537 ratings — published
Cuervo's Carnival (Macabre Madness, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 177 ratings — published
The Knotty List (A Monster Romance Novella) (The Carnival of Curiosities Book 7)
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avg rating 3.86 — 230 ratings — published
“Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of ‘the deepest contemplation contemplation of life in all its conditionality’.
It is not by chance that his stage adaptations of the comic masterpieces of Gogol and Cervantes coincided with the writing of The Master and Margarita. Behind such specific ‘influences’ stands the age-old tradition of folk humour with its carnivalized world-view, its reversals and dethronings, its relativizing of worldly absolutes—a tradition that was the subject of a monumental study by Bulgakov’s countryman and contemporary Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World, which in its way was as much an explosion of Soviet reality as Bulgakov’s novel, appeared in 1965, a year before The Master and Margarita. The coincidence was not lost on Russian readers. Commenting on it, Bulgakov’s wife noted that, while there had never been any direct link between the two men, they were both responding to the same historical situation from the same cultural basis.”
― The Master and Margarita
It is not by chance that his stage adaptations of the comic masterpieces of Gogol and Cervantes coincided with the writing of The Master and Margarita. Behind such specific ‘influences’ stands the age-old tradition of folk humour with its carnivalized world-view, its reversals and dethronings, its relativizing of worldly absolutes—a tradition that was the subject of a monumental study by Bulgakov’s countryman and contemporary Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World, which in its way was as much an explosion of Soviet reality as Bulgakov’s novel, appeared in 1965, a year before The Master and Margarita. The coincidence was not lost on Russian readers. Commenting on it, Bulgakov’s wife noted that, while there had never been any direct link between the two men, they were both responding to the same historical situation from the same cultural basis.”
― The Master and Margarita
“For someone who prefers to keep to himself and doesn't appear to like people all that much, you are everywhere in this carnival.”
― Nina's Friends
― Nina's Friends
