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Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognized, the text has remained largely inaccessible to many scholars throughout the world. This first complete English translation will make the work available to those readers for the first time.

In Il Figino, Comanini addresses all of the most hotly debated aesthetic issues of the time,...

Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been recognized, the text has remained largely inaccessible to many scholars throughout the world. This first complete English translation will make the work available to those readers for the first time.

In Il Figino, Comanini addresses all of the most hotly debated aesthetic issues of the time,...

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of short stories by Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is his most famous collection apart from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though one of the stories is implied to be about the famous detective, even though it is never explicitly stated.

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The Sign of Four, is the second novel by Doyle to feature the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1888 the plot revolves around complexities involving the Indian Rebellion and a stolen treasure. It marks the use of drugs by Holmes as a way to humanize him as well as introduce Watson's future wife Mary Morstan.

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Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry,...

The Lost World is the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot follows an expedition to an Amazonian plateau where it is discovered prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still exist. The expedition is routed by indigenous people and a race of apelike people where they encounter a war between the two.

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The Poison Belt is the second story, a Novella, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to follow Professor Challenger, first introduced in The Lost World. Published in 1913, mostly takes place in Sussex, contradictory to The Lost World, which takes place much in South America. The Poison Belt follows Challenger in a new adventure as he believes Earth is about to pass through a poisonous belt of gas in space.

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The Hound of Baskervilles, is the third detective novel to feature Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Like the previous completions, it originally appeared in The Strand Magazine, however this novel was serialized and is one story, unlike The Adventures and The Memoirs. The story is mostly set in England's West countryside as Holmes investigates a mysterious supernatural hound.

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The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 critique by the author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the human rights abuses committed by Leopold II, king of the Belgians in the Congo free state. The book is an expose on the situation labeled a "rubber regime" by Doyle. He points out the abuses occurring to the indigenous people by the European traders in the rubber industry and the private land of Leopold II of Blegium. The book was heralded as, "the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony."

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