The End of the World
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- Synopsis
- The foretelling of the end of the world is as old as the wind in the trees, and against the siege of dire prophecy the reading of history provides a reliable defense. The world as large numbers of people have known it--the Romans at Pompeii in 79 A.D., the Confederate States of America at Richmond in 1865, the Jews in Berlin in 1938--has come to an end many, many times, and writers as unlike one another as Mary Chestnut and Pliny the Younger have had occasion to remark on the spectacle. Usually it turns out that the soothsayers have been misinformed, and what becomes clear in the pages of this book is the striking difference in tone between the voices drumming up the threat of imminent damnation and the voices bearing witness to the event.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 304 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312192648
- Publisher:
- St. Martin's Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/12/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Lewis H. Lapham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- 170
- Proofread By:
- 170
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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