Today's eBooks
Jul. 13th, 2004 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurElizabethan Demonology (1880). I point out that this claims to be an expansion of an earlier paper on "The Witches in Macbeth". The mummers might want to give this one a glance.
Simon Magus. An interesting overview of an early biblical character famed for working magic. Has lots of translations of early primary-source material, which always catches my eye.
Sacred Books of the East (1900). This casts its net widely, with a good array of sources ranging from Vedic Hymns to a Life of the Buddha. Has several apparently religious sources that I don't know at all, such as selections from the Persian Zend-Avesta. Looks worth digging into.
The Moon-Voyage, by Jules Verne. Besides being an early science fiction novel, this may be of interest to comic book readers who are currently following Planetary (and if you are reading comics, why wouldn't you be reading Planetary?). It appears to be the original appearance of The Gun Club, which featured in a recent issue of that title.
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912). I ought to at least skim this at some point: I know just enough about modern occult sciences to have come across Theosophy a number of times, without really having a good grasp on what it's supposed to be about...
Simon Magus. An interesting overview of an early biblical character famed for working magic. Has lots of translations of early primary-source material, which always catches my eye.
Sacred Books of the East (1900). This casts its net widely, with a good array of sources ranging from Vedic Hymns to a Life of the Buddha. Has several apparently religious sources that I don't know at all, such as selections from the Persian Zend-Avesta. Looks worth digging into.
The Moon-Voyage, by Jules Verne. Besides being an early science fiction novel, this may be of interest to comic book readers who are currently following Planetary (and if you are reading comics, why wouldn't you be reading Planetary?). It appears to be the original appearance of The Gun Club, which featured in a recent issue of that title.
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912). I ought to at least skim this at some point: I know just enough about modern occult sciences to have come across Theosophy a number of times, without really having a good grasp on what it's supposed to be about...
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Date: 2004-07-13 04:23 pm (UTC)In a similar veing, it's not public domain, but have you read Katharine Mary Briggs' The Anatomy of Puck about Elizabethan and Jacobean beliefs about fairies? I own a copy if you'd like to borrow it.
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Date: 2004-07-13 05:27 pm (UTC)We share so many interests, that it always surprises me when I discover a hole in your education. [Of course we all have such "holes". Millions of books to be read, and they're not slowing down on the writing of new ones, either. How could immortality *possibly* get boring?]
More commonly known as _From the Earth to the Moon_, this is not just *an* early SF novel, but one of incredibly seminal importance. And not just of other books, but of film as well. It was arguably the basis of the first-ever SF film. And yes, Planetary is definitely riffing on it.
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Date: 2004-07-13 07:58 pm (UTC)