18 books like La tentation de saint Antoine

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Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka · 1947 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Bei Jahrhunderten der Literatur ist es unvermeidlich, dass einige durch das Raster fallen. Wir jagen gemeinfreie Werke und restaurieren sie, damit sie der Welt nicht verloren gehen. Wer sind wir? Wir sind Cairn Press. Unser Hintergrund liegt in Design, Verlagswesen, Typografie und Technologie. Diese Fähigkeiten treiben unsere Mission voran, öffentlich zugängliche eBooks von höchster Qualität zu… Shares: Influence, Exhibitions

The Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas · 1948 · 581p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The story traces Peter's journey from self-sufficient fisherman to his dependency on a risen Christ. It also presents another story of redemption and forgiveness, as he takes in a young Arab/Jewish girl, Fara. As they both learn of Jesus, it changes their lives. Shares: Christian saints, Bible

A handbook of legendary and mythological art Clara Erskine Clement Waters · 1871 · 575p · ≈ 19h · Challenging This reference book is a handbook of legendary and mythological art, complete with descriptive illustrations. Shares: Dictionaries, Art

The life and epistles of St. Paul William John Conybeare · 1825 · 578p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Conybeare and Howson have written such a fascinating book about Paul's extensive travels that the reader is given the feeling of being a time-traveler. Their purpose in writing was "to give a living picture of St. Paul himself and of the circumstances by which he was surrounded." In this they have been most successful. They have also inserted their own translation of each of Paul's epistles, as… Shares: Christian saints, Bible

Dear and glorious physician Taylor Caldwell · 1959 · ★ 4.3 · 574p · ≈ 19h · Moderate The world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke, man of science, and Gospel writer Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this… Shares: Christian saints, Bible

Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse · 1840 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares: Egypt, Antiquities

The big fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas · 1948 · 503p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The story traces Peter's journey from self-sufficient fisherman to his dependency on a risen Christ. It also presents another story of redemption and forgiveness, as he takes in a young Arab/Jewish girl, Fara. As they both learn of Jesus, it changes their lives. Shares: Christian saints, Bible

Trionfo della morte Gabriele D'Annunzio · 1896 · ★ 3.8 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Trionfo della morte, apparso prima a puntate sulla “Tribuna illustrata” e su “Il mattino” e poi pubblicato in volume nel 1894, chiude il cosiddetto ciclo dei «Romanzi della Rosa» iniziato con Il piacere (1889) e proseguito con L’innocente (1892). È un testo fortemente influenzato dall’estetica wagneriana e dalle teorie superomistiche di Nietzsche. L’opera più che dalla trama appare sorretta dalla… Shares: Antiquities, Continental european fiction

Minne och myt Åsa Berggren · 2004 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Vad har Ground Zero i New York gemensamt med sydskånska gravar från jägarstenåldern? Vad har trädet i barndomens trädgård gemensamt med husgrunder av sten från yngre järnåldern? Dessa till synes väsensskilda företeelser spelar alla en roll i skapandet av kollektiva minnen. I Minne och myt – konsten att skapa det förflutna diskuterar tio forskare frågor som berör hur ett samhälles historia formas… Shares: Antiquities, Art

The Beetle. A Mystery Richard Marsh · 1897 · ★ 3.5 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Beetle, written in 1897 by British author Richard Marsh, is a classic gothic horror story set in Victorian London. The book follows the characters of Paul Lessingham, Robert Holt, Sydney Atherton, Marjorie Lindon and Augustus Champnell all having a different encounter with the Beetle, a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian creature that seeks revenge for wrongs done in Egypt two decades before. Shares: Egypt, Antiquities, Classic Literature

Etruscan places D. H. Lawrence · 1674 · ★ 3.8 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of ‘Women In Love’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values. This of course did not deter him. At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more… Shares: Antiquities, Art

Crucial Instances Edith Wharton · 1901 · ★ 3.5 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. Included are: "The Duchess at Prayer," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Recovery," "Copy: A Dialogue," "The Rembrandt," "The Moving Finger," and "The Confessional." Shares: Art, Classic Literature

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer · 1982 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Holzer has been at the forefront of American art since her work first came to prominence in the early 1980s. She is known for text based works which may appear as spectacular electronic signs, T shirts or carved marble benches. Shares: Exhibitions, Art

Picasso William S. Lieberman · 1932 · ★ 3.6 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Text describes several works from Picasso's Blue and Rose periods. Ten color plates, including one on the front cover, are included. Shares: Exhibitions, Art

Legenda aurea Jacobus de Voragine · 1476 · 957p · ≈ 31h · Demanding "Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of… Shares: Christian saints, Bible

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch · 1927 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expressiveren Stil. In dieser Zeit entsteht das Meisterwerk Alpha und Omega, eine grafische Mappe bestehend aus 22 lithographischen Blättern und einem gedruckten Prosagedicht. Zusammen ergeben sie eine… Shares: Exhibitions, Art

Robert Gober Robert Gober · 1990 · 74p · ≈ 2h · Moderate An exhibition focusing on the artist's current work specifically created for the space. There are also several essays on the this work. Shares: Exhibitions, Art

Lay This Body Down Gregory A. Freeman · 1999 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using “peons,” but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence. Enlisting the aid of his trusted black farm boss, Clyde Manning, he began methodically killing his slaves. As… Shares: Antiquities, Bible

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