Gérard de Nerval

Norman Glass

"In 1844 the French painter and poet Gerard de Nerval travelled to the Levant, to Cairo, Beirut and Constantinople, the 'font of drug-taking', in search of hashish, new and wondrous experiences, the occult, encounters with the culture of the Middle East and, especially, the pursuit of the Eternal Female." "Journey to the Orient is the result of these adventures. Whether he is describing the return of the pilgrims from Mecca or the niceties of buying a Javanese slave-girl, Nerval has an eye for the real which is at once fantastic and humorous." "Impressionistic and lively, immediate and nervous, the style has not dated, and with his wild fluctuations of mood, the swashbuckling narrator reminds the reader of Henry Miller. Journey to the Orient is one of the most important literary rediscoveries of the past half-century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Journey to the Orient

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The Early History of the Independent Church at Rothwell, Alias Rowell, in Northamptonshire, From the 3rd Year of the Protectorate to the Death of Queen Anne

Excerpt from The Early History of the Independent Church at Rothwell, Alias Rowell, in Northamptonshire: From the 3rd Year of the Protectorate to the Death of Queen Anne In the earliest church list John Ponder is entered as the first elder, and John Fox as the first deacon, whilst the name of Thomas Wells is the third in the list of members. When these worthies attended the Established Church at Rowell prior to their being summoned before the Ecclesias tical Commissioners, it was a very different building to what it is now, for the square tower of the church was then surmounted with a spire, and the transepts were still stand ing. The Spire fell in 1660, and the transepts were taken down in 1673. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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