The Transposed Heads: A Legend of IndiaAn ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together. |
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... to a frightful mask, a face of horror, distracting, Medusalike, turning the
beholder to stone, or maddening him to wild acts of abnegation—for so
Shridaman, Nanda, and Sita saw it, on the journey which they — but everything
in its turn.
... to a frightful mask, a face of horror, distracting, Medusalike, turning the
beholder to stone, or maddening him to wild acts of abnegation—for so
Shridaman, Nanda, and Sita saw it, on the journey which they — but everything
in its turn.
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And now he was in the incomparable position of offering her everything she had
so mortally craved. One feels tempted to rank his good fortune above that of the
charming Sita. That love for Sumantra's golden child that had seized upon ...
And now he was in the incomparable position of offering her everything she had
so mortally craved. One feels tempted to rank his good fortune above that of the
charming Sita. That love for Sumantra's golden child that had seized upon ...
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Things did not get so far that the Nanda-body changed back completely into the
Shridaman-body—when indeed everything would have been as before. Our
narrative will not exaggerate, rather it emphasizes the factors limiting the bodily ...
Things did not get so far that the Nanda-body changed back completely into the
Shridaman-body—when indeed everything would have been as before. Our
narrative will not exaggerate, rather it emphasizes the factors limiting the bodily ...
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Nutzerbericht - fieldnotes - LibraryThingThis folkloric, Hindu-light treatment of desire, loyalty and identity lacks the craft, gravity and heft of other Thomas Mann novels. His few prose outbursts in description of beauty or deity seem ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India |
| Autor | Thomas Mann |
| Übersetzt von | Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Arthur George Rock |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1941 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 194 Seiten |
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