Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin

8 best books like Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (Richard Davenport-Hines): The Leopard, Elective Affinities, Hymns to the Night, Là-Bas, Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

The Leopard

Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN	0679731210

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...

Elective Affinities

Author	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN	0192837761

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...

Hymns to the Night

Author	Novalis
ISBN	0914232908

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Dick Higgins' popular translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Frederich von Hardenburgh's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise...

Là-Bas

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0486228371

La-bas (English Down There)--with its explicit account of child sex-murders and its detailed description of a black mass—may benefit from its transgressive reputation but also suffers from it too. Readers who come to it seeking thrills and horrors will be alternately bored and disappointed,...

Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists

Author	Margot Wittkower
ISBN	1590172132

A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."

Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf...

Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance

Author	Erwin Panofsky
ISBN	0064300250

Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:

- Preistoria umana in due cicli...

Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition

Author

Jules Michelet

4,5 estrellas

Una excelente biografía de la llamada "Bruja" de la edad media. Aquella que sana, que alivia el dolor, aunque también hace el mal. Ella va cambiando su papel hasta los procesos de hechicería en la oscura edad media hasta los siglos precedentes donde la mujer cambia de bruja...

The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

Author

Alistair Horne

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming...