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The Magic Story

By Frederick van Rensselaer Dey & Mitch Horowitz
The Magic Story by Frederick van Rensselaer Dey & Mitch Horowitz digital book - Fable

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DISCOVER THE YOU WHO CANNOT FAIL!

The Magic Story is one of the most intriguing and powerful works of inspiration ever written. Did you ever feel that you were two selves, divided between ordinary life and peak possibility? Now you can discover the mysterious “you” who cannot fail in this special edition which includes a new introduction by PEN Award-winning historian, Mitch Horowitz.

In this imaginary but starkly real tale, author Frederick van Rensselaer Dey reveals this “plus-entity” and how to encounter it:
  • Dress the Part
  • Feed Your Other Self
  • Talk Like It
  • Find a Manifesto
  • Stand for Something
Originally published in 1900, Dey’s beguiling and instructive story is a “magic key” for all who wish to become the person they are truly intended to be.

Be guided by the principle of The Magic Story. Select the self that builds you, the unknown but entirely real you: a stronger, resilient, and more capable being who shadows your daily existence and requires only that you invite it in.

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About Frederick van Rensselaer Dey

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (February 10, 1861 – April 25, 1922) was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer. Born in Watkins Glen, New York, to David Peter Dey and Emma Brewster Sayre, he attended the Havana Academy and later graduated from the Columbia University Law School. He practiced law and was a junior partner of William J. Gaynor, who went on to become the mayor of New York. Dey took up writing while recovering from a serious illness and his first full-length story was written for Beadle and Adams in 1881. “The Magic Word” and “The Magic Story,” written in 1899, were extremely popular and passed through some twenty editions. He was married twice and had two children.

Mitch Horowitz

A widely known voice of esoteric ideas, Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch introduces and edits G&D Media’s line of Condensed Classics and is the author of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, including The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim, The Power of the Master Mind, and Secrets of Self-Mastery. Visit him at MitchHorowitz.com. Mitch resides in New York.

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