false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178895380m/849864.jpg 849864 1 People have enjoyed stories of magic and the supernatural for ages, but in the late 18th century, tales of the occult became something more than a source of thrilling entertainment. At the dawn of the modern age, numerous writers found in the occult a powerful antidote to the rising scientification of human experience. In these reports from the dark side, the weird, enigmatic and unexplainable became symbols of the human spirit's resistance to the new rational world. <P>The Dedalus Occult Reader brings together for the first time a unique collection of European fiction, including passages from Valery Bruisov, Andre Bely, William Beckford, Honore Balzac, Jacques Cazotte, J.K.Huysmans, Bulwer-Lytton, de Maupassant, de Nerval, Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann , Arthur Machen, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Potocki and Robert Irwin, offering some of the finest flowers and bizarre blooms from the hermetic gardens of literary occultism. 835376 10 5 2005 The Garden of Hermetic Dreams (Dedalus Occult Reader) total:1|3:1| 1 3 9 0 0 0 false false Wed Jan 21 16:59:39 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 16:59:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Dec 05 17:20:12 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 17:20:28 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 24 11:04:13 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:04:13 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 08 23:46:20 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 23:46:20 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Aug 31 21:53:35 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 21:54:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jul 31 02:01:11 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 02:01:59 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jul 30 04:44:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 04:44:42 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 25 18:33:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 18:33:00 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 11 07:56:21 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 07:56:21 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=849864