The Devils of Loudun
by Aldous Huxley
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning. Moderate to heavy wear to the covers, including areas of creasing, toning, and former owner notes. Interior is heavily marked up, with notes and underlining throughout. According to Elias Canetti, a crowd can become its own kind of organism, a beast whose individual components magnetically cluster around what he calls 'crowd crystals'. So what exactly were the crystals at the core of the frenzy that happened at an Ursuline convent in 17th-century France? Religious hysteria? Sexual repression? Demonic possession? Cultic fervor? This classic study of the madness of crowds gets a weirdly whimsical woodcut treatment by Ellen Raskin, best known for designing the cover of the first edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, as well as for her innovative text-and-image work in her own Newberry-winning children's mystery novel, The Westing Game. 340 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 931106
- Title
- The Devils of Loudun
- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Harper Torchbooks Ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Harper Torchbooks
- Place of Publication
- New York 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Goodbar Books
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Cottage Grove, Oregon
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