Literature and Evil

Reducere. Description"Spiritualism and Necromancy" is a mid 19th century refutation of spiritualism from the specifically fire and brimstone perspective of t...

Perfect for fans of Wing & Claw, this must-have middle grade novel is from We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh! "Filled with strange terrains,...

With a hungry, timid request of 'Please, sir. I want some more', orphan Oliver Twist takes his first step on a terrifying journey. In the dark, dan...

Reducere. " James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton "The mos...

Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, o...

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Th...

Reducere. Michael Psellus (1018 - 1178 C.E) forms the bridge between the ancient classical view of the daemon as a beneficial guiding spiritual presence (a l...

Reducere. Keith Hunter Jesperson, The Sad Story of the Happy Face Killer Stories about serial killers are incredibly popular. Tracking down a mass murderer i...

The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young read...

A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries...

Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrati...

Reducere. Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and his evil double, Mr. Hyde, is one of the most famous horror stories in ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this ca...

Reducere. Alex is a typical kid--funny, curious, a little forgetful, and always hungry. His world is turned upside down when he finds a monster in his bedroo...

The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth centur...

The reckless pursuit of honor exposes an empire to demonic invasion, in this epic fantasy novel of duty and warfare, set in the extraordinary world...

Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmati...

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph ConradFirst serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, "Heart of Darkness" is the story of steamboat captain Charli...

Reducere. Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western ...

Reducere. First published in 1919, Isya Joseph's exhaustive study of the fascinating and often misunderstood Yezidis of the Near East remains a classic in th...

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy...

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed sinc...

With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both rea...

Reducere. If we haven't met yet, I must warn you: I live in a room full of monsters. Where did they come from? Well, the book of monsters, where they used to...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

Reducere. A layman's guide to preform a simple ceremony of blessing or consecration for a home or building. Rev. Swope with his years of training and experie...

'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its compl...

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him ...

Reducere. " James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton "The mos...

Reducere. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. From the cre...

Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous ritualsDurtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing...

Reducere. These are the stories of the manitous--the spirits who inhabit the supernatural world of the Ojibway (the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes ...

Reducere. An indescribably evil madman lurks beneath the prim and proper fa ade of Victorian London causing Mr. Utterson to vow, "If he shall be Mr. Hyde, I ...

Reducere. In the twentieth-century literature of the supernatural, the single most important book, in the opinion of most scholars and enthusiasts, is Ghost ...

Reducere. Beginning with a simple explanation of reading from a Christian worldview, Nancy Wilson examines and explains significant American literary movemen...

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain--the fo...

Reducere. Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction - A Lambda Literary Award Finalist - A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist - An Indie Next Pic...

Reducere. The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his thoughts between 170 and 180. He was a late Stoic Philosopher and this one of the few examples of ...

Reducere. DescriptionDarcy Pennington's course was set long before she ever stepped foot in Alitheia, and when she returns for her fourth visit to the magica...

Reducere. This The New York Times bestseller will make the Bernie Gunther series the new gold standard in thrillers.Bernie Gunther is one of the great protag...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, known as an "actor's play" for i...

Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, f...

Reducere. There Is Nothing Common About This Common Core BookIt's finally here: a book that unravels the Common Core State Standards, exposes the myths, and ...

Reducere. Why can't we look away?Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wis...

Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

Reducere. The poetical masterpiece that confronts the inexplicable mystery of good and evil can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.The book of Job,...

Reducere. "Call me Ishmael."Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature--the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal ...

Reducere. Conveys the mysteries of trauma in a way that is unsurpassed in the literature ... This is the most important book on the subject to come out in th...

Reducere. An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a nece...

Reducere. In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Hol...

Reducere. What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God? What's a Canaanite demoness doing at a ...

Reducere. DescriptionAgus Pianola is really worried: The evil Dr. Brot has hatched a cunning plan to take away Christmas from the world forever. Agus and his...

Reducere. A distinctive voice somewhere between Mark Twain and Michel Montaigne is how Psychology Today described A.C. Grayling. In Life, Sex, and Ideas: The...

Reducere. Following in the apocalyptic visions of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation, The War Scroll reveals the conflict between good and evil in the final day...

Reducere. Award NameBram Stoker AwardsAward categoryNonfictionThe phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, ...

Reducere. Angelic visitations. Visions of heaven. Encounters with the forces of evil. And insight into the End of Days. The Apocalypse of Abraham is a classi...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of Wing & Claw, this must-have middle grade novel is from We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh "Filled with strange terrains, ...

An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically d...

Reducere. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, the Count of Monte Cristo is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In ...

Reducere. Belial as an evil spirit appears in a number of sources, from the Bible and Jewish apocryphal literature to modern Satanism. He is believed to be t...

Reducere. This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert th...

Reducere. DescriptionI may be the villain of the story, but at least I get a leading role. Evil is a term thrown around history and literature as if it's som...

DescriptionThis account of evil takes the Book of Job as its guide. The Book of Job considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of evil...

Reducere. DescriptionIt: Chapter Two--soon to be a major motion picture in 2019 Stephen King's terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, "a landmark ...

There's a war going on . . . and you have what it takes to win. Christians are engaged in a cosmic war between good and evil, a war waged on many f...

A devoted fascist changes her mind and her life after witnessing the horrors of the HolocaustFirst published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Devia...

Reducere. As a scholar and teacher of literature at Oxford, Lewis confronted many questions: Aren't all religions just humanly invented myths?Doesn't evil in...

Even when Big Red was little, he had no shortage of daring adventures. Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he teams with writer Tom Sniegoski, art...

Reducere. In this volume, Richard J. Clifford seeks to make the biblical wisdom literature intelligible to modern readers. It is easy to quote the occasional...