The Devil's elixir. From the German
Author: Ernst Theodor W. Hoffmann
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 742
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Author: Ernst Theodor W. Hoffmann
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 742
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 8026898079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedardus is the Capuchin monk who is ignorant of his family history and what he knows about his childhood is based upon fragments of memory and a few events his mother has explained to him. Medardus cannot resist the devil's elixir, which has been entrusted to him and which awakens in him sensual desires. After being sent from his cloister to Rome, he finds a Count, disguised as a monk as a means of seeing his lover, and pushes him from a "devil's perch". Unbeknownst to all involved, the Count is Medardus's half-brother and the Count's lover is his half-sister. The Count becomes his lunatic doppelgänger and crosses his path multiple times after Medardus abandons his ecclesiastical position, drifting throughout the world.
Author: E.T.A Hoffmann
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0714547700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHappily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage, as he so proudly claims?Around a love story very much of its time, Hoffman arranges a narrative that brings to mind the most successful elements of contemporary magical realism and surreal comedy. Always entertaining, yet capable of a focused though subtle morality, "e;The King's Bride"e; brings disparate elements into a masterful harmony.
Author: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 358
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T.E. Apter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-06-18
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1349047104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Hoffmann
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1600080340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLate morning. It is a cold Monday, February 25, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The battered body of a young boy is found nude in a J.C. Penny Bassinet box. Was it murder? Or a terrible accident? Forever known as the Boy in the Box Case, many seasoned investigators have tried and failed to determine exactly what happened to this child now known as America's Unknown Child. This case caught the attention of a nation fifty years ago. Find out why it still does today.
Author: Daniel Pick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0199678510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe remarkable story of how the Allies used psychoanalysis to delve into the motivations of the Nazi leadership and to explore the mass psychology of fascism.
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2006-04-18
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 142992182X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus, stands at the cusp of medieval and modern times. A contemporary of Luther, an enemy of the medical establishment, a scourge of the universities, an alchemist, an army surgeon, and a radical theologian, he attracted myths even before he died. His fantastic journeys across Europe and beyond were said to be made on a magical white horse, and he was rumored to carry the elixir of life in the pommel of his great broadsword. His name was linked with Faust, who bargained with the devil. Who was the man behind these stories? Some have accused him of being a charlatan, a windbag who filled his books with wild speculations and invented words. Others claim him as the father of modern medicine. Philip Ball exposes a more complex truth in The Devil's Doctor—one that emerges only by entering into Paracelsus's time. He explores the intellectual, political, and religious undercurrents of the sixteenth century and looks at how doctors really practiced, at how people traveled, and at how wars were fought. For Paracelsus was a product of an age of change and strife, of renaissance and reformation. And yet by uniting the diverse disciplines of medicine, biology, and alchemy, he assisted, almost in spite of himself, in the birth of science and the emergence of the age of rationalism. "Ball produces a vibrant, original portrait of a man of contradictions:" - Publishers Weekly
Author: Francis Bisset Hawkins
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 516
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