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Eden
[english | 1888]Edgar Saltus
Summary: [The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it he combines the fields of anthropology evolutionary biology psychology and computer science to give a perspective of how human intelligence evolved. One of the main issues featured in the book is the search for a quantitative way of measuring intelligence. Sagan ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 206
Historia Amoris A History Of Love Ancient And Modern
[english | 1906]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... empires seemed built for all time, the Hebrew prophets, who continuously reviled them, foretold that they would pass and with them the gods, dogmas, states ...... had staggered. Homer turned religion into art, belief into poetry. He evolved a creed that was more gracious than austere, more sthetic perhaps ...... of waters, right to the gates of Ilium and within, and see how each ...]
Genres: [essays] Downloads: 486
Imperial Purple
[english | 1892]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... in that Ultima Thule where the Britons lived. From the depths of Gaul he dominated Rome, and therewith he was perating imperable forests, trailing ...... the senate and the honors that it brought. The senate was shocked. Composed of men whose fortunes he had made, the senate was not only shocked, ...... Forum, and making and unmaking kings weaving with that viper of the Nile a ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 211
Mary Magdalen
[english | 1891]Edgar Saltus
Summary: [Reprint of the 1891 ed. which was issued as v. 3 no. 5 of the Belford American novel series.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | religion] Downloads: 226
Oscar Wilde
[english | 1917]Edgar Saltus
Summary: [Oscar Wilde Volume 1 Of 2 by Frank Harris. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects English imprints Great Britain Reference Bibliographies]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 432
The Imperial Orgy
[english | 1920]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... Around it circled rampants, white and pale rose. Without was Moscow, Russia's Mekka. Within was the Kreml, Moscow's heart. Ivan was the ideal ...... that he had become an angel. At the deathnotice Muscovy really grieved. That in itself partakes of the marvellous. What perhaps is more marvellous ...... shy of this beauty for whom fate had in store a role which, on another stage, ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 167
The Lords Of The Ghostland
[english | 1907]Edgar Saltus
Summary: [Reprint of the 1907 ed.]
Genres: [philosophy] Downloads: 442
The Pace That Kills
[english | 1889]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... so perhaps because he had run for the governorship and lost it. And again there was Roland's aunt, a maiden lady of whom it is recorded that each ...... did you say his name was.. Dunellen-the Hon. Paul Dunellen. At one time-. Jones rambled on, and again Roland had ceased to listen. But ...... Dunellen answered, rising too. Do so, by all means. But wait: to-morrow I may be absent. ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 215
The Paliser Case
[english | 1919]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... lady, before whose eyes Petrograd subsequently dissolved into Retrograd and afterward into delirium, there was her son, a boy of three. Mme. Balaguine's prince ...... spoke of Tamburini. She left him to be imagined, which perhaps he had been. From the room they went on into a wide, crowded hall, beyond which was another ...... had unrolled???the day he first saw her, the hour he ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective] Downloads: 151
The Perfume Of Eros
[english | 1905]Edgar Saltus
Excerpts: [... woman was Marie Durand. It was of the latter, not of Fanny Price, that he was thinking. No, he repeated. But was it for Annandale that you asked ...... presently, after a scurry through sunshine and streets, Sherry's was reached. There Annandale wanted to order a chteaubriand. The ...... of it before and, the opportunity occurring, was guilty again-salving her conscience, if she ...]
Genres: [romance] Downloads: 61