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The White Dominican is Meyrink's most esoteric novel, and draws on the wisdom of a number of mystical traditions, the most important of which is Tao. It is set in a mystical version of the Bavarian town of Wasserburg, which sits on a promontory surrounded on three sides by the River Inn. The novel describes...

Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Inhalt: Geschichte des Zauberers Merlin (Dorothea Schlegel) Der Hexenmeister (Heinrich Seidel) Der Zwergenwald (Heinrich Seidel) Der Zauberspiegel (Walter Scott) Die Wetterhexe (Heinrich Seidel) Das Zauberklavier...

This eBible has 247,761 references. It is ~8×times the Bible in size and 9604 pages in total. Use it on as many personal devices as you like. It was released 28-02-2017. This swe1917-gerlut-itriv-kjb Parallel eBible contains Svensk Bibel (1917) och Lutherbibel (1912) och Riveduta Bibbia (1924) och...

'All of Meyrink's hallucinatory novels have been published in English by Dedalus in fluent translations by Mike Mitchell, who also wrote an informative biography of Meyrink Vivo(2008). Mitchell has now edited The Dedalus Meyrink Reader, which includes previously untranslated short stories and autobiographical...

Eight days after his last birthday, which he celebrated on the 10th of November in the company of his friends, he finished his exposition of Genesis and closed his lecture to the students with these impressive words: "I am weak! I cannot continue; pray God to grant me a blessed death." And...

Jung lavorò al Libro rosso – incomparabile verbale dei sogni e delle visioni che popolarono il suo «viaggio di esplorazione verso l’altro polo del mondo» – per oltre sedici anni, dal 1913 al 1930, e ancora in tardissima età lo definì una sorta di presagio numinoso, l’opera di fondazione...

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners...

Comic, fantastic and grotesque, Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. Written in 1917, Walpurgisnacht continues the message of The Green Face, of a decadent society...

A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence....

I find a great feature of the so-called mechanical piano-player lies in what it allows you to do yourself. It provides you with technique, but, to use a colloquial phrase, "you can still call your soul your own." The technique, the substitute for that finger facility which only years of practice will...

Among the persons of the educated classes who follow with any attention all the more important movements of the times, it would now be difficult to find one to whom the word "Zionism" is quite unknown. People are generally aware that it describes an idea and a movement that in the last years...

Die Vorfreude auf das Fest ist sicher einer der schönsten Gründe, wieder einmal ein gutes Buch zur Hand zu nehmen und sich damit in die adventlich geschmückte Stube zurückzuziehen. Dieser Band versammelt beliebte und stimmungsvolle Texte zur Weihnachtszeit. Sie erzählen Heiteres und Besinnliches,...

Ödipus ist eine Gestalt der griechischen Mythologie. Er ist ein Sohn des Laios, des Königs von Theben, den er in einem Handgemenge tötet. Später erhält er als Belohnung dafür, dass er Theben von der Sphinx befreit, Iokaste, die Witwe des Königs und damit seine eigene Mutter, zur Ehefrau. Erst...

Kurz vor seinem 25. Geburtstag starb Wilhelm Hauff, Schöpfer vieler bekannter und beliebter Märchen wie „Zwerg Nase“ und „Das kalte Herz“, aber auch von Romanen, zahlreichen Novellen und Gedichten, an einem Nervenfieber. Sein früher Tod machte Leser und Kollegen betroffen. Wilhelm Hauff hinterließ...