The Devils Elixir

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026898079
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Elixirs written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 391 pages. 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.

Author : E.T.A Hoffmann
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714547700
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King's Bride written by E.T.A Hoffmann and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. 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.

Author : Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Elixir written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142992182X
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Doctor written by Philip Ball and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 637 pages. 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

Author : E. T. a. (Ernst Theodor Ama Hoffmann
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021800329
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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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 and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. 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.

Author : Raymond Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101549106
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Elixir written by Raymond Khoury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, the heroes of Raymond Khoury's New York Times bestselling Templar novels, return in an edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from the present day back to 1700s Mexico—and beyond… What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous—and so shocking—that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law launched a ruthless, no-holds-barred pursuit to get their hands on it? What if FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin were the only ones who could stop the unthinkable from happening? And what if they’re already too late?

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auriol; or, the Elixir of life. [With “The Old London Merchant” and “A Night's Adventure in Rome.”] written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Theodor W. Hoffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's elixir. From the German written by Ernst Theodor W. Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuji Kaku
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974716139
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku, Vol. 2 written by Yuji Kaku and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabimaru is a ninja on death row with one chance to see his wife again—by finding the elixir of immortality on a supernatural island and delivering it to the shogun. Standing in his way are his fellow convicts and the fearsome beasts that roam the island, devouring or killing anyone they encounter. As Gabimaru and his executioner explore the island, they come under attack from creatures that resemble gods but behave like devils. Is this the holy land or hell itself? -- VIZ Media

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 872818419X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Elixir written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Devil's Elixir' is a gothic, horror-fantasy novel inspired by Matthew Gregory Lewis's novel 'The Monk'. Medardus is the son of a sinner and is raised in a monastery to atone for his father's past. When Medardus succumbs to temptation, he is dragged into a deadly mystery that sees him travel to Rome, pursued by his murderous lookalike. At the Vatican in Rome, the monk's only hope for salvation is the beautiful Aurelie but in order to finally discover the truth of the curse that haunts his family, Medardus must evade the sinister powers of the living and the dead. A must-read for fans of the TV adaptations of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' or Rumer Godden's 'Black Narcissus'. E.T.A Hoffmann was a German author of romance, fantasy, and gothic horror, and was highly influential on the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps best known for writing the novella 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' which was the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's ballet 'The Nutcracker'.