Publication

2003 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

103,750 words, Guess

Page Count

415 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing839990

Classifications

  • DDC809/.911
  • LCCPN56.D45 S27 2003

First Sentence

Daniel, interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream about the great image, his "head of gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, [h]is legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay," bravely prophesied to the monarch the decline and destruction of empires, his own and those to come.

Excerpt

Daniel, interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream about the great image, his "head of gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, [h]is legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay," bravely prophesied to the monarch the decline and destruction of empires, his own and those to come.

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Other Editions

  • A Baedeker of decadence: charting a literary fashion, 1884-1927Yale University Press2003-01-01

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