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Book Synopsis Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty by : Victor Hugo
Download or read book Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Misérables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his death. Satan and his Daughter, the Angel Liberty, drawn from this larger poem, tells the story of Satan and his daughter, the angel created by God from a feather left behind following his banishment. Hugo details Satan's fall, and through a despairing soliloquy, reveals him intent on revenge, yet desiring God's forgiveness. The angel Liberty, meanwhile, is presented by Hugo as the embodiment of good, working to convince her father to return to Heaven. This new translation by Richard Skinner presents Hugo's verse in a unique prose approach to the poet's poignant work, and is accompanied by the Symbolist artist Odilon Redon's haunting illustrations. No adventurous reader will want to miss this beautiful mingling of the epic and familial, religious and political.
Download or read book Lucifer written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Persistence of Evil by : Fintan Lyons O.S.B.
Download or read book The Persistence of Evil written by Fintan Lyons O.S.B. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.B. Shaw, and the spiritual writing of C. S. Lewis. Fintan Lyons O.S.B. chronicles the decline of that belief through the centuries as well as the attempts to treat the problem of evil philosophically, using the insights of thinkers such as Karl Barth. At the heart of this book is the attempt to synthesise or reconcile traditional belief with contemporary concern or even alarm regarding evil in the world. Lyons argues that evidence for the persistence of evil has been striking in modern times in wars and atrocities, while phenomena such as Satanic Cults and possible or real diabolical possession have continued to increase. The Catholic Church reacted to this situation in 1998 with a revision of the 1614 Rite of Exorcism, analysed in this book from both theological and psychological standpoints. By arguing that the transition from belief in Satan to personification of evil in historical regimes and characters brings contemporary culture into sharp focus, this book chronicles the history of humanity's attempt to understand the disturbing and mysterious reality of evil.
Book Synopsis Children of Lucifer by : Ruben van Luijk
Download or read book Children of Lucifer written by Ruben van Luijk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the details of which mainstream society imagines with a fascination verging on the obscene. Children of Lucifer debunks these facile characterizations by exploring the historical origins of modern Satanism. Ruben van Luijk traces the movement's development from a concept invented by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and external competitors to a positive (anti-)religious identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric esotericists, Decadent writers, and schismatic exorcists, among others, and culminates in the establishment of the Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that transformed the West and is epitomized by the American and French Revolutions. It is also closely connected to secularization, that other exceptional historical process which saw Western culture spontaneously renounce its traditional gods and enter into a self-imposed state of religious indecision. Children of Lucifer makes the case that the emergence of Satanism presents a shadow history of the evolution of modern civilization as we know it. Offering the most comprehensive account of this history yet written, van Luijk proves that, in the case of Satanism, the facts are much more interesting than the fiction.
Download or read book Apocalypses written by Eugen Weber and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugen Weber delivered the Barbara Frum Historical Lecture, based on Apocalypses, at the University of Toronto in March 1999. This annual lecture "on a subject of contemporary history in historical perspective" was established in memory of Barbara Frum. Apocalypses Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages The Barbara Frum Historical Lectureship A national bestseller What drove eminent historian Eugen Weber to write Apocalypses? His desire to redress the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apocalyptic and millennialist thought to the lunatic fringe. An absolute belief in the end time was omnipresent until the 17th century, and retains many adherents even now. Apocalyptic visions and prophecies inspired crusades, scientific discoveries, works of art, voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions and reforms. Elegantly written, as witty and entertaining as it is profound, Apocalypses displays Eugen Weber's talents as a stylist and historical detective; this is more a travel book of the apocalypse than a definitive academic treatment. On the eve of a billennium beset by a host of apocalyptic predictions and cults, Apocalypses offers a sympathetic review of creeds we ignore at our peril.
Download or read book Victor Hugo written by Bradley Stephens and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the Second Empire in exile, he became synonymous with the progressive ideals of the French Revolution. His state funeral in Paris made headlines across the world, and his breadth of appeal remains evident today, not least thanks to the popularity of his bestseller, Les Misérables, and its myriad theatrical and cinematic incarnations. This biography, the first in English for more than twenty years, provides a concise but comprehensive exploration of Hugo’s monumental body of work within the context of his dramatic life. Hugo wrestled with family tragedy and personal misgivings while being pulled into the turmoil of the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon’s Empire to the rise of France’s Third Republic. Throughout these twists of fate, he sensed a natural order of collapse and renewal. This unending cycle of creation shaped his ideas about freedom and roused his imagination, which he channeled into his prolific writing and other outlets like drawing. As Bradley Stephens argues, such creative intellectual vigor suggests that Hugo was too restless to sit comfortably on the pedestal of literary greatness; Hugo’s was a mind as revolutionary as the time in which he lived.
Download or read book Victor Hugo written by Graham Robb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical biography previously unavailable documents, correspondence and journals including an encrypted private, journel to expose Hugo's private life politics and his poetry.
Book Synopsis French Prophets of Yesterday by : Albert Léon Guérard
Download or read book French Prophets of Yesterday written by Albert Léon Guérard and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Satan written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of writings exploring the character of Satan in world literature.
Book Synopsis The Prince of Darkness by : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Download or read book The Prince of Darkness written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.
Download or read book The Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Writers: The Romantic century: Goethe to Pushkin. Hugo to Fontane. Baudelaire to the well made play by : George Stade
Download or read book European Writers: The Romantic century: Goethe to Pushkin. Hugo to Fontane. Baudelaire to the well made play written by George Stade and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Writers: Maxim Gorky to Marcel Proust by : George Stade
Download or read book European Writers: Maxim Gorky to Marcel Proust written by George Stade and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-eight unabridged essays based on the most studied European authors and themes.
Book Synopsis Mephistopheles by : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Download or read book Mephistopheles written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of Jeffrey Burton Russell's critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil, continuing in this volume the story from the Reformation to the present.
Download or read book Daughter of Satan written by Jean Plaidy and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1952 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guernsey Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
