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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (SIGNED COPY)
by Shattuck, Roger
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312146027
- ISBN 13
- 9780312146023
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About This Item
NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SHATTUCK on the half-title page. 369 pages. An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised. Record # 379116
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Forbidden Knowledge is the second book of The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson, a science fiction series.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 379116
- Title
- Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- Shattuck, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0312146027
- ISBN 13
- 9780312146023
- Publisher
- St Martins Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Literature, Signed, , .
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- Literature;
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