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Friendly Examiner

Name: Friendly Examiner
Brand: Zagava Books
SKU: 9783949341045
Price: 451 CZK
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Autor: Louis Marvick

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Zagava Books

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When we remember the literature of the Age of Reason, we think of satires and essays debunking the e...

Informace o knize

Autor

Louis Marvick

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2021

Stránek

202

EAN

9783949341045

ISBN

3949341048

Enbook ID

35840747

Vydavatel

Zagava Books

Hmotnost

304

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 12

Kompletní popis

When we remember the literature of the Age of Reason, we think of satires and essays debunking the extravagance of the imagination, or of projects for improving the material conditions of mankind. We do not think of the tale of terror. Of course not! The leaders of the Enlightenment wanted to dispel the darkness where monsters live, not thicken it-not magnify it. In fact (and this is not generally known) the editors of the first Encyclopaedia even took the bold step of engaging an intrepid young rationalist to investigate outbreaks of superstition, and to expose the machinery of charlatanism or the delusions of ignorance that inspired them. His first assignment: to get to the bottom of a ridiculous report that a giant blood-sucking spider has been preying on the inhabitants of a remote village in the Black Forest. Utter nonsense, of course...