Tulip Fever - 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 Tulip Fever write by Deborah Moggach. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Tulip Fever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception—now a major motion picture In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household’s inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception—and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax. In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels—a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion. Praise for Tulip Fever “Sumptuous prose . . . reads like a thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review “An artful novel in every sense of the word . . . deftly evokes seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s vibrant atmosphere.”—Los Angeles Times “Need a brief escape into a beautiful and faraway world? Deborah Moggach’s wonderful Tulip Fever can offer you that.”—New York Post “Taut with suspense and unexpected revelations.”—Entertainment Weekly “Elegantly absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
The First Book of Etymology
The First Book of Etymology - 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 First Book of Etymology write by James Lynd. This book was released on 1852. The First Book of Etymology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 - 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 Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 write by Lorraine Daston. This book was released on 1998-05. Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.
The Anglo American
The Anglo American - 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 Anglo American write by . This book was released on 1846. The Anglo American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages - 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 Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages write by Keagan Brewer. This book was released on 2016-01-29. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more often than not supported belief, there were still a great many who disbelieved, most notably scholastic philosophers who began a polemical programme against belief in marvels. Keagan Brewer reevaluates the Middle Ages’ reputation as an era of credulity by considering the evidence for incidences of marvels, miracles and the supernatural and demonstrating the reasons people did and did not believe in such things. Using an array of contemporary sources, he shows that medieval responders sought evidence in the commonality of a report, similarity of one event to another, theological explanations and from people with status to show that those who believed in marvels and miracles did so only because the wonders had passed evidentiary testing. In particular, he examines both emotional and rational reactions to wondrous phenomena, and why some were readily accepted and others rejected. This book is an important contribution to the history of emotions and belief in the Middle Ages.
