Magic in the everyday world, ghosts, and visions

4 books

Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a DreameFrancesco Colonna · 1499A 1969 facsimile reprint of the 1592 English translation of Francesco Colonna's 1499 allegorical romance, following Poliphilus through a dream in which human and worldly things are shown to be vanity, with much architecture, love, and marvels along the way.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to DateClara Louise Burnham · 1920A 1920 illustrated novel told as a modern fairy tale, in which kindly shopkeeper Mehitable Upton befriends a pretty, destitute young woman named Geraldine Melody and helps her against a threatening suitor, with chapters named for fairy-tale figures.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Strange Adventures of Mr. MiddletonWardon Allan Curtis · 1903A 1903 humorous novel in which young Edward Middleton meets the emir Achmed Ben Daoud in a Chicago bazaar and is drawn into a series of comic adventures, each sparked by a series of gifts the emir presents to him.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

ZanoniEdward Bulwer Lytton · 1842An 1842 occult romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Zanoni" follows an immortal Rosicrucian adept who possesses eternal youth and power but sacrifices his transcendent state when love for the mortal singer Viola draws him into human cares and sorrows.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية