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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Catalogue of engravings, books, manuscripts, and autograph letters, being the remainder of the collections of J.G. Nichols. Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5th Apr. 1879
Author: English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Prices of Books
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The History of Christian Thought
Author: Jonathan HillPublisher: Lion Books
ISBN: 0745957633
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A society with no grasp of its history is like a person without a memory. This is particularly true of the history of ideas. This book is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have shaped Christian history and the culture of much of the world. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Jonathan Hill takes us on an enlightening journey from the first to the twenty first centuries. He shows us the key Christian thinkers through the ages - ranging from Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine and Aquinas through to Luther, Wesley, Kierkegaard and Barth - placing them in their historical context and assessing their contribution to the development of Christianity.
The Dante Club
Author: Matthew PearlPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588363104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”—The Boston Globe “With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what’s not to love?”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin Boston, 1865. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing the infiltration of foreign superstitions to be as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor. But as the members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell’s punishments from Dante’s Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante’s literary future in the New World at stake, the members of the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. Praise for The Dante Club “Ingenious . . . [Matthew Pearl] keeps this mystery sparkling with erudition.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Not just a page-turner but a beguiling look at the U.S. in an era when elites shaped the course of learning and publishing. With this story of the Dante Club’s own descent into hell, Mr. Pearl’s book will delight the Dante novice and expert alike.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Pearl] ably meshes the . . . literary analysis with a suspenseful plot and in the process humanizes the historical figures. . . . A divine mystery.”—People (Page-turner of the Week) “An erudite and entertaining account of Dante’s violent entrance into the American canon.”—Los Angeles Times “A hell of a first novel . . . The Dante Club delivers in spades. . . . Pearl has crafted a work that maintains interest and drips with nineteenth-century atmospherics.”—San Francisco Chronicle
How to Form a Library
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer
Author: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: T-Z
Author: Leonard ForrerPublisher:
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Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Catalogue of a Portion of the Collection of Manuscripts Known as the "Appendix"
Author: Bertram Ashburnham Earl of AshburnhamPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
History of Strood
Author: Henry SmethamPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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