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The RELIGIO MEDICI is the apologia of a learned physician who was proud to be a Christian and a member of the Church of England as established by Elizabeth I. He recognize...
About seventy years after the death of Jesus, John of Patmos sent visionary messages to Christians in seven cities of western Asia Minor. These messages would eventually b...
From 1775, when John Hamilton Mortimer exhibited his 'Death on a pale horse' to Lord Leighton's abortive project for a Revelation fresco inside the Dome of St. Paul's in t...
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet
An indispensable manual to navigating life from birth to death without making a false move.
Your neighbor denounces cellular telephones as instruments of the devil. Your ...
The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is ...
The Complete Poetry
Book DescriptionA collection of the author's popular poems of childhood, illustrated with Hoosier pictures by Will Vawter. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American...
Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile, Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magn...
Wenn die Kinder artig sind, Kommt zu ihnen das Christkind; Wenn sie ihre Suppe essen Und das Brot auch nicht vergessen, Wenn sie, ohne Larm zu machen, Still sind bei den S...
The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. ...
An illustrated version of the nineteenth-century poem about the "little men" and the mischief that they do.
The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy, first presented circa 1613. John Webster's great Jacobean drama f...
Après l’histoire de la famille, Philippe Ariès a consacré ses recherches à l’histoire des attitudes de l’homme occidental devant la mort. Il livre ici l’essentiel de ses d...
In singing, supple prose, with an evocative power strange to our earthbound ears, with passion and often with fury, Frederic Prokosch takes us off to the vast, mysterious ...
Candido Munafò nasce in una grotta della Sicilia la notte dello sbarco degli americani, nel 1943. E questo romanzo ci fa seguire le vicende della sua vita sino al 1977 in ...