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On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.
The Liber Gomorrhianus ('Book of Gomorrah') is a book authored and published by the Benedictine monk Peter Damian during the Gregorian Reformation circa AD 1051. [1] It is a treatise regarding various vices of the clergy, and the consequent need for reform.
Arnobius [a] (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin [1] during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).. According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician at Sicca Veneria (El Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream. [2]
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality is a book by the philosopher John Perry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is intended as an undergraduate textbook [ 4 ] and has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Persian and Korean.
The works of Theopompus were chiefly historical, and are much quoted by later writers. They included an Epitome of Herodotus's Histories (whether this work is actually his is debated), [5] the Hellenica (Ἑλληνικά), the History of Philip, and several panegyrics and hortatory addresses, the chief of which was the Letter to Alexander.
It was first published in 1990 in French, and then translated into English by Peter Kussi and published in the UK in 1991. [1] The story springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage only signaled the swelling of public opposition to the real or imposed indecency of the plays staged over the last three decades. [4] Collier writes in the introduction: "The business of plays is to recommend Vertue, and discountenance Vice" (Collier 1).