Mephistopheles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mephistopheles write by Jeffrey Burton Russell. This book was released on 1990. Mephistopheles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dr. Faustus write by Christopher Marlowe. This book was released on 2024-01-16. Dr. Faustus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and decides that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. On the final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell. Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend is a theatrical masterpiece. With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that greatly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists, Dr. Faustus combines soaring poetry, psychological depth, and grand stage spectacle. Marlowe created powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man’s calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.
Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mephistopheles write by CD Boyland. This book was released on 2024-01-07. Mephistopheles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CD Boyland's debut poetry collection introduces explores issues of power, leadership and charisma through the lens of Mephistopheles, via Goethe, Marlowe and a host of characters, including Faust. How many people, starting out with good intentions, end up by selling off their souls. "Boyland makes space for nature to rewrite itself. This is a work of desire, refusal and ardent storytelling. Imagine Yeats organising a choreography of wolves. Hell’s villanelle is around the corner." —Maria Sledmere "Boyland is a writer of sensual terror and delight, formally inventive, and unafraid of how constraint informs creative freedom. Immerse yourself fully in this world and prepare to be unboxed." —Samuel Tongue
Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mephistopheles write by John Kendrick Bangs. This book was released on 1889. Mephistopheles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Miss Mephistopheles
Miss Mephistopheles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miss Mephistopheles write by Fergus Hume. This book was released on 2019-12-09. Miss Mephistopheles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Miss Mephistopheles by Fergus Hume is the second book to Madame Midas, following Mrs. Villier's life in Ballarat, a small mining town. Mrs. Villier must discover the secrets behind a local romance and a grisly murder. Excerpt: "A wet Sunday--dreary, dismal, and infinitely sloppy. Even the bells ringing the people into evening service seemed to feel the depressing influence of the weather, and their brazen voices sounded hoarse and grumbling as if they rang under protest. Cold, too!--not a brisk sharp frost--for here in Melbourne frost and snow are unknown; but a persevering, insinuating, gnawing cold, just disagreeable enough to make one shiver and shake with anxiety to get home to a bright fire and dry clothes."
