Extremes: Reflections on Human Behaviour

Dunning, A.J.

ISBN 10: 0436201232 / ISBN 13: 9780436201233

Editore: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1993

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Riassunto:

This is a collection of tales about the extremes of human behaviour which surveys 500 years of history and which alights on events in which people have yielded to passion, to a compulsion out of all proportion to the situation. Religious mania, cannibalism, anorexia, castration, parthenogenesis and heresy are some of Dunning's subjects; his characters include Joan of Arc, Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, the Virgin Mary, Charlotte Corday, Pope Innocent III, Adolf Hitler and Louis Braille. All of the tales show how unnatural human nature can be.

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Titolo: Extremes: Reflections on Human Behaviour
Casa editrice: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good