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The Devil's Elixir - Volume 2

E. T. A. Hoffmann

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. . .nger, in this blasphemous manner, deny the holy profession to which you belong."

"I beg of you not to interrupt us," said the judge, and, turning again to me, proceeded—

"It is my duty to observe to you, that the disinterested evidence of this reverend clergyman affords the strongest presumptions, that you are actually that runaway monk, for whom you have been arrested. At the same time, I ought not to conceal, that various other persons will be brought forward, who also insist that they have unequivocally recognised you for that individual. Among them is one, to whom your escape from the due punishment or coercion of the law would be attended by no little danger, at all events, by no little fear and apprehension. Besides, many things have been discovered in your own travelling equipage, which support the allegations against you.

"Finally, sir, you may rely, that inquiries will be set on foot as to your pretended family, on which account . . . Read More

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Man and devil… Their relationship disturbs human minds since the ancient times… In The Devil’s Elixir E. T. A. Hoffmann tells us about this relationship and his narration is generously fraught with satirical motifs.
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Καθαρό 5αρι!!!

Το απόλυτο γοτθικό ανάγνωσμα!
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Ο μοναχός Μεντάρ είναι ένα άτομο που κα

Western civilization—since Aristotle, I guess: anyway, he’s often blamed for it—has long been obsessed with ameliorative/pejorative dichotomies: good and bad, right and wrong, sin and virtue, love and lust, male and female, day and night, you and me. While perhaps semi-useful in some situations of t

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Παγκόσμια κλασικό,γοτθικό μυθιστόρημα τρόμου και σκοτεινής αλήθειας.

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Λαγνεία. Ηδονιστική μανία.
Κολασμένα συγγενικά δράματ

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