The Dark Labyrinth

Author	Ioan Petru Culianu
ISBN	0226123162

It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings...

Author	Theodor Fontane
ISBN	3150089719

Die Geschichte spielt im Berlin der 1870er Jahre. Die hübsche und pflichtbewusste Lene wohnt mit ihrer alten Pflegemutter Nimptsch in einem kleinen Häuschen. Bei einer Bootspartie lernt sie den gesellschaftlich gewandten und unterhaltsamen Baron Botho von Rienäcker kennen. Im Laufe des Sommers...

Author	Michael Frayn
ISBN	0571225578

The Council Estate

Before the internet in Britain, there was a thing called Fleet Street. This was as much a culture as a location. It sat culturally and geographically midway between the commercial city of London and the seat of government in Westminster. It produced something called newspapers,...

Author	Rupert Thomson
ISBN	1847087655

It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but knowledge is still the property of the few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex and power - these,...

Author	Frances A. Yates
ISBN	0415267692

In the years leading up to the Thirty years war (1618-1648) as Catholic and Protestant princes vied for control of the Holy Roman Empire in the heart of Europe the age was extremely polarizing and ideological. In this period famous for heresy and witchcraft trials a strange intellectual movement developed....

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	0143036343

This is my first Nietzsche. I've already learned a lot.

1. Everyone assume N is German, but he considers himself a Pole.

2. N hated German culture. I guess the Nazis missed this book. N also thought Wagner’s best work was more French than German—a unique insight, to say the least.

3. N...