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A book of angels : reflections on angels past and present and true stories of how they touch our lives / Sophy Burnham.
LIBRA - Special BL477 .B87 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnham, Sophy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [1990]
- Summary:
- This intriguing book tells the extraordinary stories of present-day encounters with angels, traces the appearance of angels in various cultures, and explores how writers--such as Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare--have responded to angels throughout history.
- Contents:
- I: Angels & ghosts I have known: Angels & ghosts I have known
- Angels unawares
- Turn a stone/start a wing
- II: Angelology, or the knowledge of angels: Sons of God
- Thunder like drumming
- Battle of heaven & Princes of Hell
- Angelic doctors
- III: Images & dreams: Wings of silence
- My black angel & others
- IV: Letters on angels.
- ISBN:
- 0345361571
- 9780345361578
- OCLC:
- 22275987
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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