Top 10 books about circuses and spectacle | Elizabeth Macneal
These dazzling shows and their dark flipside have inspired novelists from Dickens to Angela Carter " and the true stories are no less outlandish, writes Elizabeth Macneal The illusion. The tawdry glamour. The delicate balance between illusion and reality, a glittering spectacle and its dark underbelly. And above all, the wonder. It's little surprise that novelists have been inspired by the circus since it first rolle…