Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559701716
In 1909 Vienna, Baron von Yosch is accused of killing an actor whose wife was once his lover & discovers a terrifying secret when he investigates.
Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611456568
Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locked from the inside when the two shots rang out—the actor took his own life, but someone, or something, drove him to it. The baron sets out to learn all he can about the actor’s death in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, within a few days, similar apparent suicides are reported. What started out as a straightforward quest to establish Bischoff’s last deeds and discover the truth of his death becomes a search through the ages for an invisible enemy identified only by the actor’s dying breath, when he whispered: “. . . the Day of Judgment.” Leo Perutz combines his hallmark blend of suspense and the fantastic in this spine-tingling mystery.
Author : James F. David
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429911239
Kingdom of Light; The Forces of Darkness Ira Breitling---Man of God; Manuel Crow---Lord of Darkness Even the universe is not big enough for the both of them . . . especially when Ira Breitling is handed a divine gift---an interstellar engine that can lift humanity into the heavens. Crow---awash in riches, commanding nations, supremely powerful---swears eternal vengeance on Breitling and his Fellowship of the Faithful . . . and on all humankind. The reign of Lucifer---prophesized as a thousand years of darkness---is about to begin. With the world falling fast under Crow's violent sway, Breitling's Fellowship---having only one choice---seizes their divine gift, their faster-than-light flight, and flees the earth. Their journey takes them beyond the distant stars to a perfect planet uncorrupted by Crow and his Kingdom of Darkness. But even as Manuel Crow razes and racks the Earth, Revelations' scourge is not yet sated. Crows eyes the heavens, fixed on the Faithful. Ira Breitling and the Fellowship must defend not only themselves but the soul of all humanity: A Kingdom of Light against the Forces of Darkness. Will the Fellowship prevail . . . or fall under Revelations' reign? Let the battle begin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780002715119
Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258943738
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1996-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781559703345
1930. The Master of the Day of Judgment is about a drug, created in Florence in the 16th century, that makes people see the Master (God). The downside is that they also see the Day of Judgment and all the demons of Hell, which leads them to believe that they are being attacked by the demons of Hell and then they commit suicide. The novel, set in Vienna in 1909, is structured like a murder mystery, with the identity of the victim only being revealed near the end. A Kirkus review said, The identity of the Master provides a solution that, like that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is more disturbing than the mystery itself.
Author : Carl Douglass
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594333807
Gog and Magog, Yawm al-Qiyamah, Yawm al-Din, The Day of Judgment opens with a meeting of highly secretive Islamic jihadists who have a well-organized and ingenious plan to cripple the United States and Europe. The leader cautions his followers--true believers all--to be patient. On the other side of the world, a former federal prosecutor named Elizabeth Rowan is beginning the first of many steps in a meteoric rise up the federal ladder which will culminate in her being appointed president. First, however, highly placed people have to be proved to be corrupt, and some to die, to open her way. Her predecessor is an idealist whose life's ambition is to achieve world peace. He makes unprecedented compromises with Islam's rulers and its jihadists in order to achieve that goal. The leader of the jihadists recognizes an opportunity to lull the American president and his people into a stupor by offering them belief in an end to terrorism and the promise of real peace. While the West sleeps, the terrorists plan and put into place a nuclear holocaust to bring about a permanent crippling to America and Europe.
Author : Alfons Petzold
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Germany
ISBN :
Author : Leo Perutz
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2016-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781782271680
Author : Mahmoud M. Ayoub
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791495469
The Qur'an and Its Interpreters introduces the Western reader to the Qur'an as Muslims have understood it. The record of the Qur'an in the community as a force shaping the life of Muslims can be most clearly discerned through the vast literature of interpretation known as tafsir. This multivolume work is based on a large number of tafsir sources, representing all the major religious schools and stages of Muslim history for the last one thousand years. It will cover the entire Qur'an. This first volume consists of an introduction to the science and sources of interpretation of the Qur'an and the first two surahs of the Qur'an. The treatment is comprehensive and thorough. While the work is based entirely on primary sources, this volume includes a substantial bibliography of works on the Qur'an in Western languages. The Qur'an is the word of God as it was revealed to the prophet Muhammad, interiorized by the community, then shaped into an earthly book whose original archetype is with God. Dr. Ayoub concerns himself not with the history of the Qur'an, but with the way it was collected and fixed into an official codex, the recension of which has voiced the community's prayers and devotions, set its legal norms and moral standards, and occupied its best minds for more than thirteen hundred years.
