Dæmonomania

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468303971

Get Book

Dæmonomania by John Crowley Pdf

As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series. The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover—or rediscover—a path into magic, past and present. Meanwhile, single mother Rosie Rasmussen grapples with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha’s inexplicable seizures. And for Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: she’s drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an epic conflict that is approaching its ultimate confrontation . . . Or is it? Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: what is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives. It follows The Solitudes and Love & Sleep, both of which were included in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon.

Author : William Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020570991

Get Book

A Synopsis of Nosology by William Cullen ... Translated from the Latin, with references to the best authors who have written since his time, by John Thompson ... [An abridged translation of Cullen's "Genera morborum" contained in the "Synopsis nosologiae methodicae."] To which is added, Willan's Classification of Cutaneous Diseases by William Cullen Pdf

Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219786

Get Book

Canary Fever by John Clute Pdf

Canary Fever is a collection of reviews about the most significant literatures of the twenty-first century: science fiction, fantasy and horror: the literatures Clute argues should be recognized as the central modes of fantastika in our times. The title refers to the canary in the coal mine, who whiffs gas and dies to save miners; reviewers of fantastika can find themselves in a similar position, though words can only hurt us.

Author : John Gideon MILLINGEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019508556

Get Book

Curiosities of Medical Experience ... Second edition. Revised and considerably augmented by John Gideon MILLINGEN Pdf

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198873020

Get Book

Troubled by Faith by Owen Davies Pdf

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.

Author : John Gideon Millingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:77478796

Get Book

Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen Pdf

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015068387698

Get Book

The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057000909232

Get Book

The Cyclopaedia; Or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Abraham Rees Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990983866

Get Book

The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. By Abraham Rees, ... with the Assistance of Eminent Professional Gentlemen. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, by the Most Disinguished Artists. In Thirthy-nine Volumes. Vol. 1 [- 39] by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11678963

Get Book

Nosology by William Cullen Pdf

Author : David Craigie (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000623443

Get Book

Elements of the practice of physic: presenting a view of the present state of special pathology and therapeutics by David Craigie (M.D.) Pdf

Author : Alice K. Turner,Michael Andre-Druissi
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592240517

Get Book

Snake's Hands by Alice K. Turner,Michael Andre-Druissi Pdf

Brilliant, poetic, a master of fantastic symbolism and emotional portraiture, John Crowley is one of the finest contemporary American novelists. As Harold Bloom writes in his Preface to this book, "Crowley writes so magnificently that only a handful of living writers can equal him as a stylist . . . Of novelists, only Philip Roth consistently writes on Crowley's level." Engine Summer; Little, Big; Aegypt; Great Work of Time; The Translator: these are only the highlights of a twenty-five year literary career of extraordinary depth and eloquence. Yet Crowley has not been the subject of a full-length critical study until now; Snake's-Hands remedies this lack, in full. In Snake's-Hands, Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi assemble a host of brilliant essays on the fiction of John Crowley, by such eminent writers and critics as John Clute, Thomas M. Disch, James Hynes, Brian Attebery, and Bill Sheehan. Explore with them Crowley's fantasticated retellings of the Hundred Years' War and of innumerable beast fables; his subtle rendering of the bucolic decline of Earth; his astonishing, multi-leveled vision of the fairylands deep within mundane reality; his British Empire upon which the sun, heartbreakingly, never can set; his glowing, brooding trio of Hermetic masterpieces; his tale of poetry at war with nuclear annihilation. Wonders of artistry, the artistry of wonder: Crowley is a genius, and Snake's-Hands demonstrates this alluringly, in a potent mosaic of insights. Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley is the essential guide to the work of a great writer, and a landmark of criticism in its own right.

Author : William CULLEN (Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018932986

Get Book

Nosology: or, a Systematic arrangement of diseases, by classes, orders, genera, and species; with the distinguishing characters of each, and outlines of the systems of Sauvages, Linnæus, Vogel, Sagar, and Macbride. Translated from the Latin of W. Cullen. [A translation of Cullen's “Genera morborum,” together with a summary in English of the other parts of the “Synopsis nosologiae methodicae.”] by William CULLEN (Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : New Sydenham Society,Henry Power,Leonard William Sedgwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Biology
ISBN : NYPL:33433011417734

Get Book

The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society,Henry Power,Leonard William Sedgwick Pdf

Author : Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Epidemics
ISBN : NYPL:33433011420134

Get Book

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker Pdf