Horace - Böcker

På spårvagnen i Göteborg slår sig Horace Engdahl i slang med David Hume, en skotsk filosof som avled 1776. Deras samtal fortsätter genom hela boken, men avbryts av essäer om olika ämnen som aktualiseras av meningsutbytet i spårvagnen: 1700-talets ...

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Litteraturvetenskap är ett ämne där perspektivförskjutningarna varit märkbara under de gångna decennierna, vilket avspeglades i första upplagan av denna bok (1998). Sedan dess har utvecklingen gått vidare så att det nu är dags för en ny, reviderad...

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Från balkongen i sin nya hemstad ser författaren ut över en tillvaro som har bytt skepnad när en ny tidsanda tagit över lika obevekligt som när en epidemisk smitta sprids. Han reflekterar över vad som hänt, detta som förvandlat honom i omvärldens ...

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"Å, att få svika sig själv! Att få göra allting fel en enda gång!"I Den sista grisen samlar Horace Engdahl återigen sådana aforismer, längre funderingar och plötsliga infall som han redan tidigare gjort till sin genre. Boken innehåller ä...

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One of the most influential Gothic novels, The Castle of Otranto established the literary effects associated with the genre: an ancient castle, secret passages, supernatural visitations, an innocent girl threatened with violence, sudden revelation...

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With this title, Walpole established the Gothic as a literary form in England. It was first published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, a supernatural tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades and one which in...

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"En författare vet ingenting om verkan av det han har skrivit, vilket är en av orsakerna till att han behöver läsare. Men liksom man inte kan undersöka en kropp utan att påverka den, inverkar läsningarna på texten och låser fast den med hjälp...

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This is the fully comprehensive textbook covering the issues, methods and relations between religion and science throughout history and up to the modern day. Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and bi...

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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic nov...

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Denna bok innehåller texter som i ett eller annat avseende befattar sig med det obegripliga. Läsaren kan med skäl fråga om avsikten med en sådan publikation är att göra obegriplighteten begriplig. Vore det inte i så fall att göra våld på den? Ur H...

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The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the under...

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Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil. He was famous during his lifetime, and continued to be posthumously, for his odes and epodes, ...

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George Horace Lorimer's classic book of paternal advice is timeless for its lessons on conducting one's personal and professional life wisely, and to the very fullest. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son consists of twenty letters. In eac...

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Kephart's Personal Recipe Book and Technique Manual for Camp Kitchen This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart's Camp Cookery is a must-have for the camp kitchen, detailing dozens of recipes for outdoorsers, hunters, camp coo...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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As bass player with the Specials, in his second-hand suit and pork pie hat, Horace Panter was a member of one of the most innovative and exciting bands to come snarling out of the punk era. Founded by Jerry Damners, their fusion of punk, reggae an...

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The seventh edition of College Accounting reflects a solid coverage of accounting concepts and principles. It establishes a foundation of accounting procedures within the traditional proprietorship accounting cycle and builds on this framework as ...

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The functional properties of any molecule are directly related to, and affected by, its structure. This is especially true for DNA, the molecular that carries the code for all life on earth. The third edition of Understanding DNA has been entirely...

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The Second Edition of Understanding DNA has been entirely revised and updated, and expanded by more than 50% to cover new advances. The book explains step-by-step how DNA forms specific structures, the nature of these structures, and how they fund...

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For nearly 125 years, Captain Hayes' Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners has been the standard work on equine health care, constantly amended and updated. Leading veterinary specialists from Britain and around the world have been recruited to w...

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Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty....

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The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's frie...

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A haunted castle and a ruined bloodline Manfred, wicked lord of Otranto Castle, is horrified when his son is crushed to death on his wedding day. But rather than witness the end of his line, as foretold in a curse, he resolves to send his own wife...

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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic nove...

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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fac...

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The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's frie...

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Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty....

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'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!'The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be ...

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