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Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC) was a Roman poet and a follower of the Epicurean tradition. His major work, De rerum natura (”On the Nature of Things”), is held as a masterpiece of ancient poetry. This is a didactic poem that also provides a comprehensive view of Epicurus’ philosophy — the…
Författaren, juristen och musikern Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) är den tyska romantiken personifierad. I hans mystiska och medryckande historier ingår fantasi och vardag en skön förening. De är alltjämt lästa och uppskattade — Hoffmann är en levande klassiker.
Kortromanen ”Fröken de…
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a famous physician, researcher, inventor and natural philosopher. In poetry and essays, he popularised the science of his time. He also presented a well thought out theory of evolution in all his major works, where he got around some of the traps that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck fell into when…
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) can be called an Isaac Asimov or a Fred Hoyle of the 19th century. He was a well-renowned astronomer and meteorologist, who became famous by writing popular science books and early science fiction novels. He presented grand cosmological ideas in a way that distinguished him from another…
The English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a very prominent cultural figure at the beginning of the last century. A true intellectual freethinker who never submitted himself to conventional ideas only because they were in vogue, he was one of few who understood the false theory and dangerous ethics…
Kategorier: Deckare Humoristiska romaner Klassiska deckare Noveller Satir och parodier Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fick förmånen att agera ombud åt dr Watson i dennes skildringar av Sherlock Holmes bragder, men han var inte ensam. För drygt ett sekel sedan blev dr John H. Watson god vän med en svensk präst och författare på resa i England. Den gode doktorn valde att lätta sitt hjärta för honom — och…