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A collection of essays exploring the social aspects of sensation in the ancient Near East and how these cultures represented sensory phenomena in their languages, literature, art, and architecture.
This antiquarian volume contains a number of miscellaneous essays and writings by Pierre Loti, with an introduction by Henry James. With subject matter ranging from the death of a child, to witnessing Midnight Mass, the various essays of this collection have been inspired by instances in the author’s life. As a collection, it will be of considerable value to fans and collectors of Loti’s work. The chapters of this book include: “The Passing of a Child”, “Easter Holidays”, “A Reflective Moment”, “At Loyola”, “The Mayor of the Sea”, “The Grotto of Isturitz”, “Midnight Mass”, “The Passing of a Procession”, “The Sword Dance”, and many more. Pierre Loti (1850 - 1923) was a French novelist and officer in the navy. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Psychology Library Editions: Child Development (20 Volume set) brings together a diverse number of titles across many areas of developmental psychology, from children’s play to language development. The series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1930 and 1993, with the majority from the 70s and 80s, includes contributions from many respected authors in the field and charts the progression of the field over this time.
"A novel in which a mystic named El Rami, a practitioner of the arts of healing drawn from the occult science of the ancient Egyptians, attempts to control and dominate the soul of a dead girl. El Rami travels from London to Syria where he meets a caravan in the desert with two ailing women in need of care and attention. He agrees to help, and he restores one, an old women, to health. The other, a young orphan girl called Lilith, succumbs to her illness and dies. El Rami practices his mysterious arts on Lilith in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of life after death. He administers an elixir that brings her body back to life, and returns to London with the breathing corpse of Lilith. He hides her in a room in his mansion for six years, and summoning all his powers succeeds in being able to summon her soul back to her body at will. The head of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross of which El Rami was a member, Heliobas, arrives. Readers know him from The Romance of Two Worlds and Ardath. Heliobas is alarmed by El Rami's experiments, and tells him that he must release the girl and allow her to die. But El Rami is obsessed with the beautiful Lilith, and intends on making her his soulmate. Despite Lilith's pleas and warnings, as El Rami kisses her she crumbles to ashes in from of him. When El Rami recovers himself, he is taken to the Brotherhood's monastery in Cyprus, a mental wreck."--Synopsis from MarieCorelli.org.uk