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1) The inferno
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"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" These now-famous words greet Dante as he crosses the threshold of Hell. But that forbidding inscription applies only to those who have no faith - not to Dante. So begins a journey in which terror and confusion transform into an understanding of the divine plan and the realisation of divine love. For his fateful journey through the perilous terrain of Inferno, Dante is led by Virgil, the great poet of classical...
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"The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties...
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"This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my life." Thus wrote C.G. Jung about his most famous and influential work, the one that marked the beginning of his divergence from the psychoanalytic school of Freud. In this book Jung explores the fantasy system of Frank Miller, the young American woman whose...
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense,...
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Pantheon Books Inc
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[1945]
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In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
11) The symbolic goldfinch: its history and significance in European devotional art. 157 illustrations
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Bollingen volume 7
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Pantheon Books
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[1946]
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English
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Bollingen volume 12
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Pantheon Books
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[1948]
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English
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Donated by Sydney Harris.
15) On the Iliad
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Bollingen volume 9
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Pantheon Books
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[1948, ©1947]
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Bollingen volume 16
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Pantheon Books
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[1949]
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English
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Donated by Sydney Harris.