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Extrait : "Les vents retiennent leur haleine ; le soir est calme et sombre ; aucun zéphyr n'erre dans le bocage ; et moi, je vais revoir la tombe de ma Marguerite, et répandre des fleurs sur la cendre que j'aime. Dans cette étroite cellule repose sa poussière, cette poussière que tant de vie animait...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Whatever may be said of the inferiority of the ancients to the moderns in natural and mechanical science, which no one is disposed to question, or even in the realm of literature, which may be questioned, there was one department of knowledge to which we have added nothing of consequence. In the realm...

This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new...

About one hundred years after the great religious movement in India under Buddha, a man was born in China who inaugurated a somewhat similar movement there, and who impressed his character and principles on three hundred millions of people. It cannot be said that he was the founder of a new religion,...

Religion among the lively and imaginative Greeks took a different form from that of the Aryan race in India or Persia. However the ideas of their divinities originated in their relations to the thought and life of the people, their gods were neither abstractions nor symbols. They were simply men and...

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 was a conflict between Irish Catholics and English and Scottish Protestants. The organized Irish Catholics created a de facto government called the Catholic Confederation and the ensuing war between Ireland and Protestants would be known as the Irish Confederate Wars. The...

This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...

This book is unique in bringing together all strands of English Jacobism in an accessible chronological framework, highlighting key individuals, providing a biographical dictionary of less well known English Jacobites, an account of the major primary source material, and a gazetteer of places to visit....

A story about a family torn apart by obsession and the need to rebel against a violent regime, set in a broken, dystopian Britain

Dunsany's work, that Nature at least will recover, and that human doings will prove inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. Otherwise, these are meditations from out of Hell, by a man who has been there. Included, too is the "Dirge of Victory," which was published in the Times at the moment...

The American Standard Version of 1901 is an Americanization of the English Revised American Standard Version New Testament of 1891, which is an update of the KJV to less archaic spelling and greater accuracy of translation. It has been called “The Rock of Biblical Honesty.” It is the...