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LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series - edited by Richard
Holmes - recovers the great classical tradition of English
biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece - still
thrilling to read and vividly alive. The philosopher William Godwin
fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their
child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut
himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography.
True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin
coolly describes Wollstonecraft's previous love affairs, her time
in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide
attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can
now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.
The political philosopher and writer William Godwin (1756-1836),
who was also the husband of writer Mary Wollstonecraft and father
of Mary Shelley, was known for his philosophical works and novels.
In this work, originally published in 1834, Godwin turns to the
issue of the supernatural, and to some of the famous - and
sometimes unexpected - people associated with it. He begins by
defining some magic practices, such as divination, astrology, and
necromancy, giving examples of the latter from the Bible. The
remainder of the work consists of brief sketches of people and
places involved in the occult world, beginning in the Ancient
Middle East and Greece, surveying the Christian era in Europe, and
ending with the New England witch trials. In a remarkable work of
synthesis, he discusses apparently supernatural episodes in the
lives of many historical figures, from Socrates and Virgil to Joan
of Arc and James I.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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