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The Devil's Elixirs

2018-10-23 Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Devil's Elixirs by : E. T. A. Hoffmann

Download or read book The Devil's Elixirs written by E. T. A. Hoffmann. This book was released on 2018-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medardus 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.

King's Bride

2018-01-01 Fiction
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Release : 2018-01-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis King's Bride by : E.T.A Hoffmann

Download or read book King's Bride written by E.T.A Hoffmann. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily 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.

The Devil's Elixir

1824
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Book Synopsis The Devil's Elixir by : Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Download or read book The Devil's Elixir written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. This book was released on 1824. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Doctor

2006-04-18 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2006-04-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Devil's Doctor by : Philip Ball

Download or read book The Devil's Doctor written by Philip Ball. This book was released on 2006-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippus 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

The Devil's Elixir. From the German of E.T.A. Hoffmann; Volume 2

2023-07-18
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Book Synopsis The Devil's Elixir. From the German of E.T.A. Hoffmann; Volume 2 by : E T a (Ernst Theodor Ama Hoffmann

Download or read book The Devil's Elixir. From the German of E.T.A. Hoffmann; Volume 2 written by E T a (Ernst Theodor Ama Hoffmann. This book was released on 2023-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffmann's eerie and captivating tale follows the journey of a young man who seeks the elixir of life from a mysterious stranger. With its dark twists and turns, The Devil's Elixir is classic Hoffmann, and a must-read for fans of Gothic literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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