The Devil's Elixirs - 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 The Devil's Elixirs write by E. T. A. Hoffmann. This book was released on 2018-10-23. The Devil's Elixirs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
King's Bride
King's Bride - 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 King's Bride write by E.T.A Hoffmann. This book was released on 2018-01-01. King's Bride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Devil's Elixir
The Devil's Elixir - 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 The Devil's Elixir write by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. This book was released on 1824. The Devil's Elixir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Devil's Elixir
The Devil's Elixir - 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 The Devil's Elixir write by Raymond Khoury. This book was released on 2011-12-22. The Devil's Elixir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
The Devil's Doctor
The Devil's Doctor - 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 The Devil's Doctor write by Philip Ball. This book was released on 2006-04-18. The Devil's Doctor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
