When did Machen publish The Great God Pan?
The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan is a horror and fantasy novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Machen was inspired to write "The Great God Pan" by his experiences at the ruins of a pagan temple in Wales. What would become the first chapter of the novella was published in the magazine "The Whirlwind" in 1890. Machen later extended "The Great God Pan" and it was published as a book alongside another story, "The Inmost Light", in 1894. The novella begins with an experiment to allow a woman named Mary to see the supernatural world. This is followed by an account of a series of mysterious happenings and deaths over many years surrounding a woman named Helen Vaughan. At the end, the heroes confront Helen and force her to kill herself. She undergoes a series of supernatural transformations before dying and she is revealed to be the child of Mary and the god Pan.
Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Critical reception for "Gods and Kings" has been positive. The "New York Times" wrote that "Ms. Thomas has produced a slightly seedy-feeling but, yes, addictive biography of two outsize personalities who seem less the gods or kings of her title than Captain Hook and Peter Pan." In contrast", The Guardian" heavily criticized the book for offering an uneven portrayal of McQueen and Galliano, stating that "to read her brass-tacks account, you’d get the impression that Galliano’s career has been fail after fail. She implicates the “gushing” fashion press in praising his work – we’re an easy bunch to disparage – yet she seems more or less blind to the meaning and emotion others may have felt at Galliano’s or McQueen’s shows."
Angels of Mons
A month or two later Machen received requests from the editors of parish magazines to reprint the story, which were granted. In the introduction to "The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War" (1915) Machen relates that an unnamed priest, the editor of one of these magazines, subsequently wrote to him asking if he would allow the story to be reprinted in pamphlet form, and if he would write a short preface giving sources for the story. Machen replied that they were welcome to reprint but he could not give any sources for the story since he had none. The priest replied that Machen must be mistaken, that the "facts" of the story must be true, and that Machen had just elaborated on a true account. As Machen later said:
Around that time variations of the story began to appear, told as authentic histories, including an account that told how the corpses of German soldiers had been found on the battlefield with arrow wounds.
The God Machine (novel)
The God Machine is a science-fiction novel by American writer Martin Caidin first published in 1968. Set in the near future, the novel tells the story of a top-secret cybernetic technician, Steve Rand, one of the brains behind Project 79, a top-secret US government project dedicated to creating artificial intelligence. Rand survives an attempt on his life before he realizes that Project 79 has gained sentience and is trying to control the minds of humans and take over the world. Assisted by a security agent and a mathematician, Rand sets out to destroy Project 79 before it is too late.
Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe
The book was originally published in 1961, under the title "God the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe". The first revision of the book was retitled Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. The Archetype is still in print today and is currently published and distributed by the Institute. Though the volumes were rearranged in Elohim the Archetype, the titles of each volume of God the Archetype are as follows:In the United States, the first edition of "God the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe" has passed out of copyright and is in the public domain. However, this is not the case for Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. The second and subsequent editions copyright are held by the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research.
The Great God Pan (sculpture)
The Great God Pan is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Pan by American artist George Grey Barnard currently installed on the grounds of Columbia University.
Legends Magazine
In mid-2003 "Legends Magazine"'s editor Marcus Pan partnered with Mean Little Man Productions in an attempt to further "Legends Magazine"'s reach and potential. Marcus would continue to handle the creative and writing direction of the magazine while MLM would further the marketing and promotions of same. As time wore on for a couple years it became apparent that the two parties were incompatible when it came to working together on a business scale, with MLM arguing that the direction of the magazine wasn't being taken seriously enough while Marcus argued that the direction of the magazine was fine and fulfills the goals that he had in mind since inception - promoting music, writing himself and providing a forum for new fiction writers and essayists. The partnership was almost immediately dissolved following the 150th issue party.
The Great God Pan
According to film historians Keith McDonald and Roger Clark, Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro's portrayal of the faun in his 2006 dark fantasy film "Pan's Labyrinth" was inspired by the "ambivalent and possibly dangerous" portrayals of Pan in late Victorian and early Edwardian novels, including Machen's "The Great God Pan" and "Pan's Garden" (1912) by Algernon Blackwood. Del Toro deliberately chose to imitate the darker, more sinister fauns of Machen and Blackwood rather than the "sweetly domesticated figure" of Mr. Tumnus from C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (1950). The original title of the film in Spanish is "El Laberinto del Fauno" ("The Labyrinth of the Faun"), but the English title "Pan's Labyrinth" emphasizes the connection between del Toro's film and the body of late nineteenth-century writings about Pan, including "The Great God Pan".
Joshua Rifkin
One of Rikfin's widely accepted findings, which he published in 1975, is that Bach's "St Matthew Passion" was first performed on Good Friday, 1727, not 1729 as was previously believed. Rifkin's scholarly critical edition of Bach's Mass in B minor was published by Breitkopf and Härtel in November, 2006. It is the first edition to follow strictly Bach's final version from 1748 to 1750, not intermixing readings from the "1733 Missa" (the first version of the Kyrie and Gloria), and posits novel solutions to removing edits made posthumously by Bach's son C.P.E. Bach.
Meher Baba
Meher Baba began dictating his major book, "God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose", using an alphabet board in Dehradun, August 1953. In September of 1954, Meher Baba gave a men-only sahavas at Meherabad that later became known as the Three Incredible Weeks. During this time Baba issued a declaration, "Meher Baba's Call", wherein he once again affirmed his Avatarhood "irrespective of the doubts and convictions" of others. At the end of this sahavas Meher Baba gave the completed manuscript of his book "God Speaks" to two members of Sufism Reoriented, Ludwig H. Dimpfl and Don E. Stevens, for editing and publication in America. The book was subsequently published by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
The Goddess: A Demon
The Goddess: A Demon (1900) is a novel by Richard Marsh. It was originally serialized in "Manchester Weekly Times and Salford Weekly News" in twelve installments between 12 January 1900 and 30 March 1900. It was one of eight books Marsh published in as many months. "The Goddess: a Demon" followed Marsh's smash "The Beetle". "The Goddess: a Demon" was not as successful as "The Beetle", but is one of Marsh's more recognized publications.
The Great God Pan
Machen's lifelong fascination with occultism began after he read an article on alchemy in an edition of Charles Dickens's periodical "Household Words" belonging to his father, a clergyman. In his 1922 autobiography, "Far Off Things", Machen wrote that "The Great God Pan" was inspired by the times he visited the Usk, a Welsh river, and the Welsh towns of Caerleon on the Usk and Caerwent as a boy; all of these places had been settled by the Romans. He wrote that "strange relics" were frequently found at Caerwent from the ruined temple of "Nodens, god of the depths". Machen visited the temple, which he described as a "lonely house between the dark forest and the silver river".
Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214
"Tönet, ihr Pauken!" was published in 1887 as part of the first complete edition of the composer's works, by the Bach Gesellschaft. The "Christmas Oratorio" had already appeared in the same series in 1856. The cantata was published as part of the "Neue Bach-Ausgabe" in 1962, edited by Werner Neumann.
David Kohn
Kohn was editor of the Aḥiasaf edition of Abraham ibn Ezra's "Diwan" (1894), as well as of Jacob Emden's autobiography and various other important works. He was also the first to attack Heinrich Graetz's criticism of the Biblical text, and to defend the Masorah. Besides the works already mentioned, he published: "Meḥḳere Ḳohelet ben Dawid", a historico-critical introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes; "Masoret Seyag le-Miḳra", in defense of the Masorah against the hypercriticism of modern exegetes (1880); and "Or we-Ḥoshek".
The Goddess: A Demon
"The Goddess: A Demon" was published in the wake of much other work by Marsh. "Manchester Weekly Times", a publication that had run a lot of his work, including Marsh's novella "The Woman with One Hand" in 1899, published it. The paper also published Marsh's “In Full Cry” (1899), “The Strange Fortune of Pollie Blythe: The Story of a Chinese ‘God’” (1900) and “The Man in the Glass Cage; or The Strange Story of the Twickenham Peerage" (1901). His name was so regular to the "Manchester Weekly Times" that they began to advertise his pieces once including a long paragraph about his work. His success is not far to seek. He brings to his work gifts of a very rare order; he is a delightfully unconventional writer, and tells a story in quite a unique way. Combining something of the sensationalism of Wilkie Collins with a humerous insight reminding one of Charles Dickens, his stile exhibits qualities which it owes to neither of these famous novelists, nor to any other. It is characterized by a peculiar directness and vigour which invest the narrative with fascinating interest. As for plot and incident, it is sufficient to say that in all Mr. Marsh’s stories the movement is very rapid, and the reader is hurried forward with breathless interest. "The Goddess: A Demon" was a highly anticipated periodical for Marsh and was a selling point of "Manchester Weekly Times".
Pan (magazine)
Pan was an arts and literary magazine co-founded by Richard Dehmel and published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Otto Julius Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe.
Der Kanon
Der Kanon or more precisely Marcel-Reich-Ranickis Kanon is a large anthology of exemplary works of German literature. Edited by the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, he called the anthology, announced on 18 June 2001 in the German news magazine Der Spiegel under the title "The Canon of worthwhile German Works", his magnum opus. The five parts appeared from 2002 to 2006 published by Insel Verlag: 1. Novels (2002), 2. Tales/Stories (2003), 3. Dramatic Works (2004), 4. Poetry (2005), and 5. Essays (2006). As expected, the anthology met with opposition and criticism, and even the idea of an anthology was questioned, but Reich-Ranicki called this questioning "incomprehensible, because the lack of a canon would mean relapse into barbarism. Reich-Ranicki sought to differentiate his anthology from previous compilations in his hope to imagine a "reader judge" such as teachers, students, librarians, who would need to draw from this canon because they were in the "first line of those who deal with literature professionally."
The Great God Pan
In a review of the novella for "Black Gate", Matthew David Surridge hypothesized that Machen took inspiration from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818) in his portrayal of Dr. Raymond as a mad scientist akin to Victor Frankenstein. The works of Robert Louis Stevenson, especially his 1886 novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", were among Machen's most significant influences when writing "The Great God Pan". Critic John Gawsworth also sees Machen's novella as reminiscent of the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan Le Fanu. Aaron Worth noted similitude between the death of Helen Vaughan and the theories of alchemist Thomas Vaughan, who is the character's namesake and Helen's disintegration recalls the alchemical concept of the prima materia. John C. Tibbetts observes similarities between Helen Vaughan and Ayesha, the sexually liberated demonic priestess from H. Rider Haggard's "" (1886). Machen wrote that several critics felt that Joris-Karl Huysmans's novels "À rebours" (1884) and "Là-bas" (1891) had inspired "The Great God Pan", though he did not read either book until after "Pan" was published. Upon reading the two novels, Machen concluded that "my critics had not read them either."
God Mazinger
The manga, although it shares some similarities and the same premise, differs from the anime with a more mature tone and also has a different conclusion. It was originally published in tankōbon format by Shogakukan in 1984. It was later re-printed in 1986 by Kadokawa Shoten under the title of "Majin Densetsu" and also under the original title by Chuokoron-sha in 1995 and Daitosha in 1998.
The Children's Bach
After its first publication in 1984, it was published by Penguin Books in 1996 and again in 2008. It was re-published in October 2018 by Text Publishing, containing a foreword by Ben Lerner which states: "The efficiency and precision of Garner's descriptions allows her to accomplish in a sentence what for other writers would require pages of exposition, ruining the effect".
Cotton Mather
"Magnalia Christi Americana", considered Mather's greatest work, was published in 1702, when he was 39. The book includes several biographies of saints and describes the process of the New England settlement. In this context "saints" does not refer to the canonized saints of the Catholic church, but to those Puritan divines about whom Mather is writing. It comprises seven total books, including "Pietas in Patriam: The life of His Excellency Sir William Phips", originally published anonymously in London in 1697. Despite being one of Mather's best-known works, some have openly criticized it, labeling it as hard to follow and understand, and poorly paced and organized. However, other critics have praised Mather's work, citing it as one of the best efforts at properly documenting the establishment of America and growth of the people.
The Divine (graphic novel)
"The Divine" was published in the U.S. by First Second Books, featuring a blurb by author Yann Martel, best known for the international bestseller "Life of Pi". It was released in July 2015 and has hit the New York Times Best Sellers list. It has since received highly positive reviews. "Publishers Weekly" had chosen "The Divine" for "top ten graphic novel for spring 2015", describing it later on as: "Heady, hellacious, and phantasmagoric". Jesse Karp on his Booklist review wrote: "Stunning artwork and creeping dread weave together in this satisfying and moving page-turner". Douglas Wolk from The New York Times described it as "a too rare example of artists getting top billing", referring to the artwork by Asaf and Tomer Hanuka. Joshua Rivera from GQ wrote: "The Divine's story is unflinching and raw, and its art is quite possibly the most beautiful of any comic this year". Michael Mechanic from Mother Jones called it "beautifully rendered", while io9 defined it as "Your next comics obsession". Rich Barrett from Mental Floss chose it for "The most interesting comics of the week" and praised it for being "stunning, cohesive combination [of elements]". Terry Hong, from The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog, wrote: "can’t-turn-away riveting [...] Unrelenting and uninterruptible", and the Eisner nominated comics blog Comics & Cola dubbed it "superb" and chose it for its pick of the month.
God Speaks
"God Speaks" is Meher Baba's most significant published book. Kenneth Lux, Ph.D. writes: ""God Speaks" is Meher Baba's major book and it is famously difficult. But not only is it Baba's major book, it is his only book. All other books by Meher Baba, such as the "Discourses" and "Listen Humanity", are not written as books, as "God Speaks" is, but are collections of essays and messages."
Michiel van Kempen
Michiel van Kempen was or is editor of several magazines, including "Uit de Kunst", "Tegenspraak" and "Oso" (magazine for Surinamese studies). He made special issues for the literary magazines "Deus ex Machina" (1987), "Preludium" (1988), "De Gids" (1990) en "Armada" (1999). In 1986, he founded the weekly Literary Pages of "De Ware Tijd", the largest newspaper of Suriname. Articles by his hand appeared in many literary magazines. His newspaper reviews were collected in "De geest van Waraku" (1993; The spirit of Waraku). Van Kempen was co-editor of two collections of scientific essays: "Tussenfiguren" (1988, Writers in between) en "Wandelaar onder de palmen" (2004, Walker under the palm trees).
Joseph Macwan
His first novel "Angaliyat" (The Stepchild) was published in 1986, followed by "Lakshman Ni Agni Pariksha" (1986), "Mari Parnetar" (1988), "Manakhani Mirat" (1992), "Bij-Trij Na Tej" (1995), "Ajanma Aparadhi" (1995), "Dada Na Deshma" (1996), "Mavatar" (1996), "Amar Chandalo" (2002), "Dariya" (2006), "Sangavato", "Bhini Mati Kora Man" (2004), "Apano Paras Aap" (2005) and "Charushila" (2011). Macwan depicted the life of the Charotar region in his novels. "Vyathana Vitak", is a biographical work published in 1985, followed by "Vahalna Valkha" (1987), "Prit Pramani Pagle Pagle" (1987) and "Mari Bhillu" (1989). "Sadhna Ni Aaradhna" (1989) is a short story collection.
Graphic novel
The 1920s saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition, with Belgian Frans Masereel cited as "the undisputed king" of this revival. His works include "Passionate Journey" (1919). American Lynd Ward also worked in this tradition, publishing "Gods' Man", in 1929 and going on to publish more during the 1930s.
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The Great God Pan
Machen's literary reputation was re-evaluated in the 1920s and "The Great God Pan" has since attained the reputation of a horror masterpiece. In "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1926; revised 1933), H. P. Lovecraft praised the story, saying: "No one could begin to describe the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds"; he added that "the sensitive reader" reaches the end with "an appreciative shudder". Lovecraft also noted, however, that "melodrama is undeniably present, and coincidence is stretched to a length which appears absurd upon analysis". Bennett Cerf described the story as a "masterpiece". Brian Stableford stated that "The Great God Pan" is "the archetypal Decadent horror story" and described the story as "highly original". Stephen King referred to it as "one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language." King also praised "Pan" for being "more reader-friendly" than Lovecraft's fiction. "The Washington Post" Elizabeth Hand deemed it "one of the greatest supernatural tales ever written". "Black Gate" Matthew David Surridge said that "The Great God Pan" is "a fascinating, troubling story, and, for all its influence, not like much else than I can think of. It's not simple, and yet it's effective, more so than can easily be explained."
Great Gospel of John
The "Evangelium Johannis" was published posthumously from 1871 to 1876 in 7 volumes by Johannes Busch, a publisher from Dresden (Germany). Later it was numbered and published in ten volumes and divided into chapters by C. F. Landbeck, "Neu-theosophischer Verlag" and "Neu-Salems-Verlag". Currently it is published by the "Lorber-Verlag", a dedicated publisher based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. Engel's addendum was published by C. F. Landbeck and "Lorber Verlag" as volume 11. The 1st edition dates to 1871; the 8th edition to 1996.
Nodens (Cthulhu Mythos)
Lovecraft may have based Nodens on Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" (1890) because Machen was one of Lovecraft's favorite authors. In the novel, Machen describes a late Roman inscription hinting that Nodens is actually the titular god Pan.
On one side of the pillar was an inscription, of which I took a note. Some of the letters had been defaced, but I do not think there can be any doubt as to those which I supply. The inscription reads as follows:
Joseph Langen
He also published works on the "Last Days of the Life of Jesus", on "Judaism in the Time of Christ", on "John of Damascus" (1879) and an "Examination of the Vatican Dogma in the Light of Patristic Exegesis of the New Testament". But he is chiefly famous for his "Geschichte der Römischen Kirche" ("History of the Church of Rome to the Pontificate of Innocent III") (4 vols, 1881–1893), a work of sound scholarship, based directly upon the authorities, the most important sources being woven carefully into the text. He also contributed largely to the "internationale theologische Zeitschrift", a review started in 1893 by the Old Catholics to promote the union of several National Churches on the basis of the councils of the Undivided Church, and admitting articles in German, French and English.
John Gresham Machen
In 1906, Machen joined the Princeton Seminary as an instructor in the New Testament, after receiving an assurance that he would not have to sign a statement of faith. Among his Princeton influences were Francis Landey Patton, who had been the prosecutor in a nineteenth-century heresy trial, and B. B. Warfield, whom he described as the greatest man he had ever met. Warfield maintained that correct doctrine was the primary means by which Christians influenced the surrounding culture. He emphasised a high view of scripture and the defence of supernaturalism. It appears that under their influence Machen resolved his crisis of faith. In 1914, he was ordained and the next year he became an Assistant Professor of New Testament studies.
The Great God Pan
Clark Ashton Smith was inspired by "The Great God Pan" to write his story "The Nameless Offspring" (1931), which also features a monstrous child born of a human and a supernatural entity. It has been suggested that Michael Arlen's novel "Hell! Said the Duchess" (1934) is a parody of "The Great God Pan", as Arlen was influenced by Machen's work. "The Great God Pan" influenced Peter Straub's novel "Ghost Story" (1979) in its depiction of a shapeshifting monster who terrifies those it encounters. Straub himself frequently credited "The Great God Pan" as having been a major influence on his work.
Pan (god)
Pan entices villagers to listen to his pipes as if in a trance in Lord Dunsany's novel "The Blessing of Pan" published in 1927. Although the god does not appear within the story, his energy certainly invokes the younger folk of the village to revel in the summer twilight, and the vicar of the village is the only person worried about the revival of worship for the old pagan god.
Anton Pann
In 1843, Pann established a printing press inside the Olteni Church, which published works by several authors of his day, as well as a long series of almanacs. He later confessed that this enterprise had drained his economies, and that he had relied on support from various benefactors. Upon Neofit's request, he also began the translation of various religious texts. Pann's comprehensive and innovative textbook for music, "Bazul teoretic şi practic al muzicii bisericeşti" ("The Theoretical and Practical Basis of Church music or the Melodic Grammar"), was officially endorsed by the Metropolitan and taught at the seminary after 1845 and became a template for similar works; in addition, his printing shop sold cheap copies of popular novels, such as the "Alexander Romance", the "Book of 1001 Nights", the "Book of Til Owl-Mirror", and the "Story of Genevieve of Brabant". In March 1847, Anton Pann authored an account of the Great Fire of Bucharest. During the latter disaster, his printing shop was heavily damaged, and he was only able to salvage the presses. He resumed his activities only in 1849, when he moved the business to a house owned by Catinca Pann on Taurului Street.
God Is Not Great
God Is Not Great is a 2007 book by Anglo-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion. It was originally published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion and in the United States by Twelve as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, but was republished by Atlantic Books in 2017 with no subtitle.
Paul-Jean Toulet
In 1897, Toulet received a copy of "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen from a friend and he translated it the following year, as "Le Grand Dieu Pan". It was published in "La Plume" in 1901 but went unnoticed except for Maeterlinck's reaction "...combining the traditional and scientific fantastic genres, it hits both our memories and hopes". Toulet engaged a correspondence with Machen and visited him in London.
Stephen McKenna (novelist)
McKenna's "The Oldest God" (1926) is a philosophical fantasy novel featuring the god Pan.
Paul L. Maier
He is the author of sixteen published books, both historical fiction and non-fiction. His historical fiction includes the #1 national best-seller in religious fiction "A Skeleton in God's Closet" (1993), as well as "Pontius Pilate" (1968), "The Flames of Rome" (1981), "More Than A Skeleton" (2003), and the children's book "The Very First Christmas" (1998). Maier's non-fiction work includes "Josephus: The Essential Works", a translation and abridgement of the writings of Josephus; and "The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea", a translation of Eusebius' "Church History". Maier co-wrote "The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction?" with Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaf. The book is a critical rebuttal of Dan Brown's 2003 topseller "The Da Vinci Code". In addition, he has published well over 200 articles and reviews in such journals as "Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte", "Church History", "Harvard Theological Review", "Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie", "Concordia Theological Quarterly", "Concordia Journal", "Mankind", "Christian Century", "Christianity Today", and "Christian Herald".
Arthur Machen
Machen also was at this time investigating Celtic Christianity, the Holy Grail and King Arthur. Publishing his views in Lord Alfred Douglas's "The Academy", for which he wrote regularly, Machen concluded that the legends of the Grail actually were based on dim recollections of the rites of the Celtic Church. These ideas also featured strongly in the novel "The Secret Glory" which he wrote at this time, marking the first use in fiction of the idea of the Grail's surviving into modern times in some form, an idea much utilised ever since, as by Charles Williams ("War in Heaven"), Dan Brown ("The Da Vinci Code") and George Lucas ("Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"). In 1907, "The Hill of Dreams", generally considered Machen's masterpiece, was finally published, though it was not recognized much at the time.
Arthur Machen
Machen's literary significance is substantial; his stories have been translated into many languages and reprinted in short story anthologies countless times. In the sixties, a paperback reprint in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series brought him to the notice of a new generation. More recently, the small press has continued to keep Machen's work in print. In 2010, to mark the 150 years since Machen’s birth, two volumes of Machen's work were republished in the prestigious Library of Wales series.
Ars Magna (Gerolamo Cardano)
The Ars Magna ("The Great Art") is an important Latin-language book on algebra written by Gerolamo Cardano. It was first published in 1545 under the title "Artis Magnæ, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus" ("Book number one about The Great Art, or The Rules of Algebra"). There was a second edition in Cardano's lifetime, published in 1570. It is considered one of the three greatest scientific treatises of the early Renaissance, together with Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" and Vesalius' "De humani corporis fabrica". The first editions of these three books were published within a two-year span (1543–1545).
Bach Gesellschaft
The Bach-Gesellschaft began publishing Bach's works in 1851 with a volume that started with BWV 1, the cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1". It completed publication in 1900 with its forty-sixth volume. However, the edition of "The Art of Fugue" by Wolfgang Graeser, published in 1926, is sometimes counted as "Volume 47" and was issued as a supplement to the Bach-Gesellschaft publication by Breitkopf & Härtel, publishers of the original series. Additionally, Vol. 45, part 1 includes a revised edition ("Neue berichtige Ausgabe") of the English Suites and French Suites that had previously been published in Vol. 13.
John Gresham Machen
After returning from Europe, Machen continued his work as a New Testament scholar at Princeton. During this period he gained a reputation as one of the few true scholars who was able to debate the growing prevalence of Modernist theology whilst maintaining an evangelical stance.
"The Origin of Paul's Religion" (1921) is perhaps Machen's best known scholarly work. This book was a successful attempt at critiquing the Modernist belief that Paul's religion was based mainly upon Greek philosophy and was entirely different from the religion of Jesus.
"Christianity and Liberalism" (1923) is another of Machen's books that critiqued theological modernism. The book compared conservative and Protestant Christianity to the rising popularity of Modernist (or "Liberal") theology. He concluded that "the chief modern rival of Christianity is Liberalism".
In "What is Faith?" (1925) he set before him the pastoral task of anchoring faith in the historical fact of Christ's atonement. He found liberal theology anti-intellectual, insofar as it spiritualized Christianity and treated it as merely an expression of individual experience, thus emptying the Bible and creeds of all definitive meaning.
These books, along with a number of others, placed Machen firmly in one theological camp within the Presbyterian Church. His work throughout the 1920s was divided between his time at Princeton and his political work with evangelical Presbyterians.
Despite his conservative theological beliefs, Machen was never able to fully embrace popularist fundamentalism either. His refusal to accept premillennialism and other aspects of Fundamentalist belief was based upon his belief that Reformed Theology was the most biblical form of Christian belief—a theology that was generally missing from Fundamentalism at the time. Moreover, Machen's scholarly work and ability to engage with modernist theology was at odds with Fundamentalism's anti-intellectual attitude.
Bach's church music in Latin
From the early 19th century there was a renewed attention for Bach and his music: his Latin church music, including (published as a composition by Bach in 1805), the Magnificat (published in 1811), BWV 234 (published in 1818) and the Mass in B minor (heralded as "the greatest musical art work of all times and nations" in 1818), received a fair share of that renewed attention – the first 19th-century publication of a work for voices and orchestra on a German text only followed in 1821. In the second half of the 20th century Bach's compositions on a Latin text were grouped in the third chapter of the "Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis".
Jean Giono
"Colline" was followed by two more novels heavily influenced by Virgil and Homer, "Un de Baumugnes" (1929) and "Regain" (1930), the three together comprising the famous “Pan Trilogy”, so-called because in it Giono depicts the natural world as being imbued with the power of the Greek god Pan. The other novels Giono published during the nineteen-thirties on the whole continued in the same vein, set in Provence, with peasants as protagonists, and displaying a pantheistic view of nature. Marcel Pagnol based three of his films on Giono's work of this period: "Regain", with Fernandel and music by Honegger, "Angèle", and "La Femme du boulanger", with Raimu.
Arthur Machen
This led in 1903 to a second marriage, to Dorothie Purefoy Hudleston, which brought Machen much happiness. Machen managed to find a publisher in 1902 for his earlier written work "Hieroglyphics", an analysis of the nature of literature, which concluded that true literature must convey "ecstasy". In 1906 Machen's literary career began once more to flourish as the book "The House of Souls" collected his most notable works of the nineties and brought them to a new audience. He also published a satirical work, "Dr Stiggins: His Views and Principles", generally considered one of his weakest works.
Arthur Machen
From the beginning of his literary career, Machen espoused a mystical belief that the humdrum ordinary world hid a more mysterious and strange world beyond. His gothic and decadent works of the 1890s concluded that the lifting of this veil could lead to madness, sex, or death, and usually a combination of all three. Machen's later works became somewhat less obviously full of gothic trappings, but for him investigations into mysteries invariably resulted in life-changing transformation and sacrifice. Machen loved the medieval world view because he felt it manifested deep spirituality alongside a rambunctious earthiness.
Manhunters (DC Comics)
Years later, it was revealed that the Manhunters not only still existed, but had infiltrated the lives of most superheroes with their agents. They even managed to infiltrate the Olympian Gods, one of their number posing as the goat god Pan, as shown during the "Challenge of the Gods" storyline. They revealed themselves when a Guardian and a member of the Zamarons tried to evolve some humans into becoming the next Guardians of the Universe, during what became known as the Millennium crisis. On this occasion, there was a massive counterstrike operation by the heroes against the Manhunters, and it seemed that the Grandmaster had finally been destroyed, along with their hidden home planet. Former Privateer Mark Shaw readopted his identity as Manhunter in the wake of the battle, seeking to redeem both the name and himself.
Christ myth theory
Starting in the 1870s, English poet and author Gerald Massey became interested in Egyptology and reportedly taught himself Egyptian hieroglyphics at the British Museum. In 1883, Massey published "The Natural Genesis" where he asserted parallels between Jesus and the Egyptian god Horus. His other major work, "Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World," was published shortly before his death in 1907. His assertions have influenced various later writers such as Alvin Boyd Kuhn and Tom Harpur.
The Book of Giants
The Book of Giants has long been known as a work which circulated among the Manichaeans as a composition attributed to Mani. During the twentieth century a number of finds shed considerable light on the literary evidence for the Book of Giants. The discoveries and publications of Manichaean fragments from the Book of Giants discovered at Turfan have substantiated the many references to its circulation among, and use by the Manichaens. Further identification of the Manichaean Book of Giants was revealed in 1971 when J.T. Milik discovered several Aramaic fragments of Enochic works among the Dead Sea Scrolls. These fragmentary scrolls were the primary source utilized by Mani in the compilation of his book and confirmed the Book of Giants as an independent composition from the second temple period.
Galenic corpus
Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig (1754–1840) published an edition of 122 of Galen's writings between 1821 and 1833. His edition, which is the most complete, although flawed, consists of the Greek text with facing-page Latin translation. The text and translation are mainly taken from the edition of Chartier 1638—39, Paris. Kühn's edition runs to 22 volumes, 676 index pages, being over 20,000 pages in length. More modern projects like the "Corpus Medicorum Graecorum" have still to match the Kühn edition. A digital version of the Galenic corpus, largely taken from Kühn's edition but using newer editions where available, is included in the "Thesaurus Linguae Graecae", a digital library of Greek literature started in 1972. Another useful modern source is the French Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (BIU Santé).
The Great God Pan
"The Great God Pan" implied sexuality caused a scandal upon its original release and hurt Machen's reputation as an author. Reviewing the novella for the magazine "Literary News", Richard Henry Stoddard criticised the story as "too morbid to be the production of a healthy mind". The art critic Harry Quilter's review of the book, titled "The Gospel of Intensity", and published in "The Contemporary Review" in June 1895, was even more harsh. Quilter declared: "The Great God Pan' is, I have no hesitation in saying, a perfectly abominable story, in which the author has spared no endeavor to suggest loathsomeness and horror which he describes as beyond the reach of words." Quilter warned that Machen's books were a dangerous threat to the entire British public and that they would destroy readers' sanities and senses of morality. Quilter went on to attack the story's publisher, John Lane, as well as Machen himself: "Why should he be allowed, for the sake of a few miserable pounds, to cast into our midst these monstrous creations of his diseased brain?" Quilter added that works of fiction like Machen's should be unanimously condemned by literary critics and newspapers: "If the Press was so disposed it could stamp out such art and fiction in a few months: And that disposition must be acquired, must even be enforced." He was particularly harsh in his denunciation of sexual ambiguity and polymorphous androgyny in the book. He expressed revulsion at Machen's description of Helen's sex changing immediately before her death and concluded his review with a comment of distaste regarding the "nasty little naked figure of dubious sex and humanity with which Mr. Aubrey Beardsley has prefaced the story". A positive appraisal of the novella came from Oscar Wilde, who called it "un succès fou."
Bo Giertz
Giertz’s first regularly assigned parish was in Torpa, where he served as assistant vicar from 1938 until his election as bishop in 1949. Here he authored many theological works including "Kyrkofromhet" ("Ecclesiastical piety", which was published with "Kristi kyrka" in 1939); "Den stora lögnen och den stora sanningen" ("The great lie and the great truth", 1945); "Kampen om människan" ("The Battle For Man", 1947); "Stengrunden" (“The Hammer of God”, 1941); and "Tron allena" (“Faith Alone”, 1943).
Christopher Hitchens
In his bestseller "God Is Not Great", Hitchens expanded his criticism to include all religions, including those rarely criticised by Western secularists, such as Buddhism and neo-paganism.
Hitchens said that organised religion is "the main source of hatred in the world", calling it "[v]iolent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: [it] ought to have a great deal on its conscience". Hitchens therefore says in "God Is Not Great" that humanity is in need of a renewed Enlightenment. The book received mixed responses, ranging from praise in "The New York Times" for his "logical flourishes and conundrums" to accusations of "intellectual and moral shabbiness" in the "Financial Times". "God Is Not Great" was nominated for a National Book Award on 10 October 2007.
Arthur Machen
His intense, atmospheric stories of horror and the supernatural have been read and enjoyed by many modern horror and fantasy writers, influencing directly Peter Straub, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, "Sarban" (John William Wall), Joanna Russ, Graham Joyce, Simon Clark, Tim Lebbon, and T. E. D. Klein, to name but a few. Klein's novel "The Ceremonies" was partly based on Machen's "The White People", and Straub's novel "Ghost Story" was influenced by "The Great God Pan".
Arthur Machen
Machen next produced "The Three Impostors", a novel composed of a number of interwoven tales, in 1895. The novel and the stories within it were eventually to be regarded as among Machen's best works. However, following the scandal surrounding Oscar Wilde later that year, Machen's association with works of decadent horror made it difficult for him to find a publisher for new works. Thus, though he would write some of his greatest works over the next few years, some were published much later. These included "The Hill of Dreams", "Hieroglyphics", "A Fragment of Life", the story "The White People", and the stories which make up "Ornaments in Jade".
Magnificat (Bach)
The D major version of Bach's Magnificat didn't appear in print before the Bach-revival that followed Mendelssohn's 1829 performance of the "St Matthew Passion". In the 1840s a piano reduction by Robert Franz of Bach's D major version of the Magnificat appeared. In 1862 the orchestral and vocal score was published in Volume 11/1 of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The same edition printed the Christmas interpolations for the first time. A year later Robert Franz complained the composition had still received too little attention from music critics and so remained virtually unknown to the general public. A year later he published the D major version of the Magnificat with an orchestral score in line with 19th century performance practice, for example expanding the "organ and continuo" single stave with annotated bass from the autograph and the Bach-edition into several separate staves for organ, bassoon and celli.
Norman Maclean
He spent the last years of his life attempting to write a non-fiction account of the 1949 Mann Gulch Forest Fire. The manuscript was published posthumously as "Young Men and Fire" and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. In 2008, The University of Chicago Press published a new compendium of unpublished and some previously published works, "The Norman Maclean Reader." The book included parts of a never-finished book about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn that Maclean worked on from 1959 to 1963. Publishers Weekly gave the book a respectful review in Summer 2008, remarking, "Readers of the two earlier books will find, as Weltzien [Alan Weltzien, the book's editor] phrases it, 'new biographical insights into one of the most remarkable and unexpected careers in American letters.'"
John Gresham Machen
John Gresham Machen (; July 28, 1881 – January 1, 1937) was an American Presbyterian theologian in the early 20th century. He was the Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1906 and 1929, and led a conservative revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative. As the Northern Presbyterian Church continued to reject conservative attempts to enforce faithfulness to the Westminster Confession, Machen led a small group of conservatives out of the church to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. When the northern Presbyterian church (PCUSA) rejected his arguments during the mid-1920s and decided to reorganize Princeton Seminary to create a liberal school, Machen took the lead in founding Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia (1929) where he taught New Testament until his death. His continued opposition during the 1930s to liberalism in his denomination's foreign missions agencies led to the creation of a new organization, the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (1933). The trial, conviction and suspension from the ministry of Independent Board members, including Machen, in 1935 and 1936 provided the rationale for the formation in 1936 of the OPC.
Arthur Machen
Finally Machen accepted a full-time journalist's job at Alfred Harmsworth's "Evening News" in 1910. In February 1912 his son Hilary was born, followed by a daughter Janet in 1917. The coming of war in 1914 saw Machen return to public prominence for the first time in twenty years due to the publication of "The Bowmen" and the subsequent publicity surrounding the "Angels of Mons" episode. He published a series of stories capitalizing on this success, most of which were morale-boosting propaganda, but the most notable, "The Great Return" (1915) and the novella "The Terror" (1917), were more accomplished. He also published a series of autobiographical articles during the war, later reprinted in book form as "Far Off Things". During the war years Machen also met and championed the work of a fellow Welshman, Caradoc Evans.
Angels of Mons
Machen, who had already written a number of factual articles on the conflict for the paper, set his story at the time of the retreat from the Battle of Mons in August 1914. The story described phantom bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt summoned by a soldier calling on St. George, destroying a German host. Machen's story was not, however, labelled as fiction and the same edition of the "Evening News" ran a story by a different author under the heading "Our Short Story". Additionally, Machen's story was written from a first-hand perspective and was a kind of false document, a technique Machen knew well. The unintended result was that Machen had a number of requests to provide evidence for his sources for the story soon after its publication, from readers who thought it was true, to which he responded that it was completely imaginary, as he had no desire to create a hoax.
The Five Greatest Warriors
The series is published by Pan Macmillan and this book was first released on 20 October 2009 in Australia.
The Great God Pan (sculpture)
His son, Edward Severin Clark, acting on behalf of his estate, ultimately donated the work to Columbia University. Charles Follen McKim installed the sculpture as a functional fountain in the northeast corner of the campus in 1907. It is now located across from Lewisohn Hall.
Malachy Coney
He self-published a number of small press comics during the early 1990s, including the religious satire "Catholic Lad", "The Good Father", a story of family and sexuality, and a gay-themed parody superhero comic, "Major Power and Spunky", drawn by Sean Doran, which also appeared in the anthologies "Gay Comics" and "Buddies", and in a one-shot published by Fantagraphics' Eros Comix imprint in 1994. Eros also published Coney and Holden's "The Dandy Lion" in 1997. A third gay superhero parody, "The Simply Incredible Hunk", was drawn and self-published by Holden. In 1997 He contributed to the Belfast anthology "DNA Swamp", writing the Irish mythological superhero series "Keltor", illustrated by Christian Kotey, and the one-off strip "Life Dreams of a Homo Pacedermus", drawn by Doran.
Geraldine McCaughrean
J. M. Barrie gave all rights to "Peter Pan" to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929, and in 2004, to coincide with "Peter Pan"'s centenary, the hospital launched a competition to find the author of a sequel. McCaughrean won the competition, after submitting a synopsis and a sample chapter. "Peter Pan in Scarlet" was released internationally on 5 October 2006, published in the UK by Oxford University Press and in the US by Simon & Schuster.
The Great God Pan
"Black Gate" Matthew David Surridge said that "The Great God Pan" influenced Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897) as both works feature "an introductory sequence featuring a horrified Englishman in a non-English setting; then a variety of seemingly-unconnected events in London, the metropole at the heart of Empire; then the discovery that all those events are in fact inspired by one malign and supernatural intelligence, that the rational contemporary capital is threatened by the irrational and archaic; then an equivocal conclusion. The fear of sex, women, foreignness." John C. Tibbetts notes that both Helen Vaughan in "The Great God Pan" and Lucy Westenra in "Dracula" are "demon women of voracious and malignant sexuality". Theodora Goss also notes similarities between the death of Helen Vaughan in Machen's novella and Lucy's death in "Dracula". Tibbetts also notes that Machen's portrayal of Helen Vaughan as demonic and hyper-sexual may have influenced a similar character, The Woman of Songs, in Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" (1897).
Pan (god)
A modern account of several purported meetings with Pan is given by Robert Ogilvie Crombie in "The Findhorn Garden" (Harper & Row, 1975) and "The Magic of Findhorn" (Harper & Row, 1975). Crombie claimed to have met Pan many times at various locations in Scotland, including Edinburgh, on the island of Iona and at the Findhorn Foundation.
The Great God Pan
What is now the first chapter of the novella was published in 1890 in a magazine called "The Whirlwind", while what is now the third chapter of the book was published in the same magazine the following year as a standalone short story called "The City of Resurrections". Machen only viewed the two works as connected after they were finished. Once he decided the two stories were connected, Machen wrote the rest of "The Great God Pan" in a single evening save for its final chapter. Machen did not think of an ending for the tale for months, and in that time believed that the novella would remain unfinished forever. The last chapter was completed in June 1891. Machen sent the novella to the publisher Blackwood, who rejected it, deeming it a clever story that "shrink[s]...from the central idea." It was accepted by John Lane and published in 1894. When published as a book, "The Great God Pan" was accompanied by another Machen tale called "The Inmost Light" which also features a mad scientist and elements of science fiction. The book's cover was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.
Horned deity
In 1933, the Egyptologist Margaret Murray published the book, "The God of the Witches", in which she theorised that Pan was merely one form of a horned god who was worshipped across Europe by a witch-cult. This theory influenced the Neopagan notion of the Horned God, as an archetype of male virility and sexuality. In Wicca, the archetype of the Horned God is highly important, and is thought by believers to be represented by such deities as the Celtic Cernunnos, Indian Pashupati and Greek Pan.
We Are All Pan's People
We Are All Pan's People is an album by Julian House, under the pseudonym of The Focus Group. It was released on 26 March 2007 on the Ghost Box Music label. The title and artwork owe a simultaneous debt to the 1970s dance troupe Pan's People and the stories - the novella The Great God Pan specifically - of Arthur Machen; labelmates Eric Zann and Belbury Poly have also acknowledged a debt to the author.
Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy
The most significant conservative preparation for the General Assembly of 1924 actually occurred slightly before the 1923 General Assembly. This was the publication of J. Gresham Machen's "Christianity and Liberalism". In this book, Machen argued that liberalism, far from being a set of teachings that could be accommodated within the church, was in fact antithetical to the principles of Christianity and was currently engaged in a struggle against historic Christianity.
Antonio Machado
His next book, "Nuevas canciones" (New Songs), published in 1924, marks the last period of his work. The complete works of his poetry, "Poesías Completas" was published in 1938 and contains "Poesias de Guerra" ("Poems of War"), with "El crimen fue en Granada" ("The crime took place in Granada"), an elegy to Federico García Lorca.
John Gawsworth
As a very young man he moved in London literary circles championing more traditional verse and writing against modernism. He ran the Twyn Barlwm Press, a small press publishing some well-known poets, its title inspired by the mountain Twyn Barlwm in South Wales, beloved by one of his literary idols Arthur Machen. Machen was one of the remaining writers of the 1890s he admired and befriended. Gawsworth's longest piece of written work was a biography of Machen, but he could find no publisher for it in the thirties. It was finally published by Tartarus Press in 2005.
John Kneen
By 1910 Kneen had completed "A Grammar of the Manx Language", the work that was to later be called his "great work." However he did not have the means of publishing it, there not being sufficient public interest in a work of that type at that time. Kneen therefore deposited the manuscript of the book in the Manx Museum library. The importance of the work then came to the attention of the Trustees of the Museum, who petitioned Tynwald for £250 to pay for its publication. This was achieved and it was finally published in 1931.
Stein Mehren
He made his literary debut with the poetry collection "Gjennom stillheten en natt" in 1960. Other collections from the 1960s are "Alene med en himmel" (1962), "Mot en verden av lys" (1963), "Gobelin Europa" (1965), "Tids alder" (1966), and "Aurora. Det Niende Mørke" (1969). Among his essay collections are "Samtidsmuseet og andre tekster" (1966), "Maskinen og menneskekroppen" (1970), and "Myten og den irrasjonelle fornuft" (two volumes, 1977 and 1980). He has written two plays, "Narren og hans hertug" (1968, staged at Nationaltheatret), and "Den store søndagsfrokosten" (1976). In the 1970s he wrote two novels, "De utydelige" (1972) and "Titanene" (1974).
The Great God Pan
Author Theodora Goss sees "The Great God Pan" as equating paganism with irrationality and what Carl Jung would call the collective unconscious. "Black Gates" Matthew David Surridge believes that the story associates paganism with sex and femininity, while portraying Helen as a female Antichrist, a view shared by James Goho in "Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror" (2014). Surridge adds "from another perspective: [Helen] is the undoing of progress. Rather than proceeding from paganism to Christianity, as orthodox Victorian belief imagined the progress of history, she is a reversal of time, the revenge of the atavistic." In keeping with this idea, Surridge sees Mary's name as a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus and Helen's name as a reference to the pagan figure Helen of Troy. Goho interprets the story as Machen's warning against the abandonment of "true religion" and the embrace of paganism.
Wesley D. Sweetser
This enthusiasm led him to publish a valuable Machen biography and bibliography with Adrian Goldstone based on his earlier thesis. He played an important part in supporting the 1960s revival in Machen’s works.
Oisín McGann
In 2003, his first two books in the "Mad Grandad" series for younger readers were released by the O'Brien Press of Dublin, followed by his first young adult novel, "The Gods and their Machines" in 2004. More "Mad Grandad" titles soon followed as well as two more young adult novels, "The Harvest Tide Project" and "Under Fragile Stone" (collectively known as the "Archisan Tales"). "The Harvest Tide Project" was actually the first novel McGann had written, but it was contracted as part of a three-novel deal, and his publishers chose to release "The Gods and their Machines" first.
N. (novella)
King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s "The Great God Pan" stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s 'The Great God Pan,' which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse."
The Great God Pan
Stephen King wrote that his novella "N." from his story collection "Just After Sunset" (2008) is "a riff on Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan"... Mine isn't anywhere near [as] good [as the original], but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." King has also cited Machen's novella as an influence on his novel "Revival" (2014). Similar to "Pan", "Revival" features an experiment on a young woman's brain which allows her to see into another world.
Pan Book of Horror Stories
The series was initially collected and edited by Herbert Van Thal. On Van Thal's death Clarence Paget edited the series, from volume twenty-six until its demise with volume thirty in 1989.
The early editions of the "Pan Book of Horror Stories" were notable for their lurid cover art and Van Thal's introduction of stories by new authors alongside classics of the genre. The first edition included works by Peter Fleming, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker and C. S. Forester. Later volumes featured Ray Bradbury and Lord Dunsany among others. Basil Copper made his debut in fifth volume, with the story "The Spider". The series also published work by Charles Birkin, R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Alex Hamilton. After volume nine, Van Thal placed a heavier reliance on new authors. The series grew in popularity and was the stepping stone for much new talent. In the 1970s, the increasingly violent content of the "Pan Books" provoked some controversy. In the early 1980s a slow decline in standards was observed. Popularity rose again in the late decade, but a multitude of reprint stories from Stephen King and a severe slide in quality ended the iconic series in 1989. The last book is now a rare collectors item, due to the small print run it received.
World Publishing Company
At the time the largest publisher of the King James Bible, in 1940 Cahen's son-in-law, Ben Zevin, expanded the company's output by publishing inexpensive editions of classic literature, which were sold in variety stores and drugstores as well as bookstores. Under Zevin's leadership, in 1940 World Publishing introduced the hugely popular Tower Books imprint: a 49-cent line of hardcovers which featured such authors as mystery writer Rex Stout. (This "Tower Books" was not related to the Tower Publications imprint that operated from 1958–1981.) From 1942 to 1964 William Targ worked as an editor for World Publishing, eventually becoming editor-in-chief. As time passed, World Publishing expanded its repertoire to all types of fiction, nonfiction, sports, the classics, and philosophy.
The Dunwich Horror
Lovecraft's main literary sources for "The Dunwich Horror" are the stories of Welsh horror writer Arthur Machen, particularly "The Great God Pan" (which is mentioned in the text of "The Dunwich Horror") and "The Novel of the Black Seal". Both Machen stories concern individuals whose death throes reveal them to be only half-human in their parentage. According to Robert M. Price, "'The Dunwich Horror' is in every sense an homage to Machen and even a pastiche. There is little in Lovecraft's story that does not come directly out of Machen's fiction."
Dora Marsden
In 1920 Marsden withdrew from the literary and political scene and spent fifteen years in seclusion, completing a "magnum opus" drawing from philosophy, mathematics, physics, biology and theology. It was eventually published by Harriet Shaw Weaver in two volumes as "The Definition of the Godhead" in 1928 and "Mysteries of Christianity" in 1930.
Pan (god)
Many modern scholars consider Pan to be derived from the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European god "*Péhusōn", whom these scholars believe to have been an important pastoral deity ("*Péhusōn" shares an origin with the modern English word "pasture"). The Rigvedic god Pushan is believed to be a cognate of Pan. The connection between Pan and Pushan was first identified in 1924 by the German scholar Hermann Collitz. According to Edwin L. Brown, the name "Pan" is probably a cognate with the Greek word ὀπάων "companion".
Chandrashekhar Vijay
Panyas Chandrashekhar Vijayji Maharaj Saheb (born Idravadan, 18 January 1934 – 8 August 2011), also known as Gurudev or Guruma, was a Jain monk, scholar and author. Born and educated in Mumbai, he was initiated as a monk who later designated "Panyas". He was involved in religious as well as sociopolitical activities. He founded several institutions and authored 261 books.
Christ myth theory
Theologian Willem Christiaan van Manen of the Dutch school of radical criticism noted various anachronisms in the Pauline Epistles. Van Manen claimed that they could not have been written in their final form earlier than the 2nd century. He also noted that the Marcionite school was the first to publish the epistles, and that Marcion ( – ) used them as justification for his gnostic and docetic views that Jesus' incarnation was not in a physical body. Van Manen also studied Marcion's version of Galatians in contrast to the canonical version, and argued that the canonical version was a later revision which de-emphasized the Gnostic aspects.
The Great God Pan
In writing the novella, he tried to "pass on the vague, indefinable sense of awe and mystery and terror that [he] had received" while visiting those ruins. Machen felt that he had "transliterated [the feeling] clumsily" in "The Great God Pan", elaborating: "I translated awe, at worst awfulness, into evil; again, I say, one dreams with fire and works in clay." Dennis Denisoff said that Machen's decision to make Helen Vaughan the child of a Welsh woman and a pagan figure "parallels Machen's own authorial self-identity as one arising from not only his Welsh ancestry but also pagan myth."
TAN Books
In 1971, TAN republished the Douay–Rheims Bible, which had fallen out of print by the late 1960s, photographically reproducing it from the 1899 John Murphy & Co. edition. In the 1990s, with the advent of computer-based word processing, TAN began re-typesetting many of the titles in its catalog, rather than relying solely upon photographic reproductions of out-of-print works. In 2004, actor and director Mel Gibson's Icon Productions granted TAN the license to publish the Catholic edition of "The Passion: Photography from the Movie" The Passion of the Christ, a collection of photographs of scenes from the film accompanied with excerpts from the film's screenplay and quotations from the Douay–Rheims.
Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a
Bach probably first performed the Magnificat on the feast day, 2 July. Until 2003, most musicologists believed that Bach wrote the Magnificat for his first Christmas in Leipzig. Then Andreas Glöckner published "Bachs Es-Dur-Magnificat BWV 243a – eine genuine Weihnachtsmusik?" (Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a – a genuine Christmas music?) in the "Bach-Jahrbuch" (Bach yearbook) 89, questioning the Christmas date in favour of Visitation the same year. Older sources naturally still have Christmas as the first performance, for example Neil Jenkins, the editor of an edition for Novello in 2000. He writes that the "new Thomaskantor was obviously intending to impress his new employer and the congregation", which makes even more sense at the beginning of Bach's tenure. Not all scholars follow Glöckner's arguments, but Jones agrees with Glöckner: "... may well have received its first performance at the Feast of the Visitation on 2 July 1723, only five weeks after he took up his Leipzig post."
Great Wall Pan Asia Holdings
In November 1971, it was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It was privatised by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1987, and relisted in 1990.
In October 1993, Robert Kuok's Kerry Group acquired a 34.9% stake in the SCMP Group from Murdoch's News Corporation. His son, Kuok Khoon Ean, took over as chairman at the end of 1997. The Kerry Group bought a further 30% stake in the publisher for HK$1.1 billion ($142 million) in 2008. In March 2009, in a refinancing exercise, the controlling shareholder sold a 14.4% stake in the publisher to a consortium of banks in exchange for put call options exercisable within 4 years.
How Great Thou Art
Boberg first published "O Store Gud" in the "Mönsterås Tidningen" (Mönsterås News) on 13 March 1886 .
Johann Sebastian Bach
Felix Mendelssohn significantly contributed to the renewed interest in Bach's work with his 1829 Berlin performance of the "St Matthew Passion", instrumental in setting off what has been called the Bach Revival. The "St John Passion" saw its 19th-century premiere in 1833, and the first performance of the "Mass in B minor" followed in 1844. Besides these and other public performances and an increased coverage on the composer and his compositions in printed media, the 1830s and '40s also saw the first publication of more vocal works by Bach: six cantatas, the "St Matthew Passion", and the "Mass in B minor". A series of organ compositions saw their first publication in 1833. Chopin started composing his 24 Preludes, Op. 28, inspired by the "Well-Tempered Clavier", in 1835, and Schumann published his "Sechs Fugen über den Namen B-A-C-H" in 1845. Bach's music was transcribed and arranged to suit contemporary tastes and performance practice by composers such as Carl Friedrich Zelter, Robert Franz, and Franz Liszt, or combined with new music such as the melody line of Charles Gounod's Ave Maria. Brahms, Bruckner, and Wagner were among the composers who promoted Bach's music or wrote glowingly about it.
God and Texas
"God and Texas" has been published in several volumes. It was printed in full in the September, 1943 issue of "Theatre Arts Magazine". In 1944 it was collected in the volume "The Best One-Act Plays of 1943." In 2004 it was collected, with an introduction by Glenn Young, in the volume "Let Freedom Ring: 7 Patriotic Plays."
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain () is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature.
Piccadilly
In Arthur Machen's 1894 novella "The Great God Pan", Helen Vaughan, the satanic villainess and offspring of Pan, lives off Piccadilly in the pseudonymous Ashley Street. Margery Allingham's fictional detective Albert Campion has a flat at 17A Bottle Street, Piccadilly, over a police station, although Bottle Street is equally fictitious.
Bible fiction
"Joseph and His Brothers" (1943) is a novel by Thomas Mann that retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph, setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work.
Magnificat (Bach)
The first time the Christmas hymns of the E-flat major version of Bach's Magnificat were printed was in the same volume as the D major version of the Magnificat, in the 1862 Bach Gesellschaft XI/1 publication, which presented the hymns in an annex. In that publication the hymns were however not transposed to fit in the D major setting of the Magnificat. More recently publishers offer such transposed (and completed) versions of the hymns, so that they can be performed as part of the D major version of the Magnificat, for instance Novello in 2000 (Neil Jenkins) and Bärenreiter in 2014.
The Great God Pan
Pan was an ancient Greek god primarily worshipped in Arcadia who was associated with shepherds and their flocks, and with nature. He was believed to lurk in caves, mountains, and other lonely, isolated locations. In some stories, he inflicted his enemies with sudden terror (i.e. "panic"). The phrase, "the great God Pan" comes from an ancient Greek folktale recorded in Plutarch's "De defectu oraculorum" ("On the Decline of Oracles"), which claims that a Greek sailor near the island of Paxi during the reign of Emperor Tiberius (ruled 14–37 AD) heard a voice cry out, "When you are arrived at Palodes, take care to make it known that the great God Pan is dead." Early Christian commentaries suggested that this event occurred at the same time as the death of Christ and that the "death" of Pan represented the transition from a pagan to a Christian world.
The Space Machine
The book was first published in 1976 by Faber and Faber Limited (). It was republished in paperback by Pan Books in 1981 () and by Gollancz's VGSF imprint in 1988 ().