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Harry E. Wedeck (1894–1996)

Autor/a de A Treasury of Witchcraft

29+ obres 707 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Obres de Harry E. Wedeck

A Treasury of Witchcraft (1960) 262 exemplars
Latin Poetry (1940) — Editor — 79 exemplars
A Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs (1989) 56 exemplars
Dictionary of Pagan Religions, (1971) 31 exemplars
Dictionary of Astrology (1973) 29 exemplars
Dictionary of the Occult (1956) 27 exemplars
Dictionary of Spiritualism (1971) 23 exemplars
Dictionary of erotic literature (1962) 21 exemplars
Dictionary of Magic (1956) 18 exemplars
Pictorial History of Morals (1963) 12 exemplars

Obres associades

Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) — Traductor, algunes edicions534 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Wedeck, Harry E.
Data de naixement
1894
Data de defunció
1996-07
Gènere
male
Lloc de naixement
UK
Llocs de residència
UK
US
Professions
Classics lecturer
Biografia breu
Harry E. Wedeck was a linguistic, scholar of the classics, and observer of spheres beyond the norm. A native of Sheffield, England, Prof. Wedeck was chairman of the department of classical languages at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn from 1935 to 1950 and then taught the classics at Brooklyn College until 1968. Afterward he lectured on medieval studies at the New School for Social Research until 1974. Some of his excursions into the unusual remain available in reprint editions. They include Dictionary of Astrology, A Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, A Treasury of Witchcraft and Triumph of Satan. They were originally written near the end of Prof. Wedeck’s career, when he was steeped in the classics as an educator in the New York City school and college system.

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Interesting, poignant novelization of Lafacadio Hearn's life - someone I've always found fascinating. However, it's a bit dated and has some rascist overtones at times...At one point Hearn embraces a black woman: "Madly he felt her muscles ripple responsively, and he sensed the primal odor of her, wafted from remote tribal haunts." Hearn was an expat most of his life and only when he was about to die did he obtain any real recognition.
 
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dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |
Dr Wedeck, a lecturer in classics at Brooklyn College, in the briefest of Forewords, describes his work as "a dictionary that embraces the lexicographical field of words, phrases, and allusions that stem from classical sources". Where Greeks and Romans had a word for it, here it is.
 
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keylawk | Apr 1, 2007 |

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Obres
29
També de
1
Membres
707
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
60
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