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The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job (Penguin Great Ideas)

The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Anon (Author), Anon (Author)

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    Mass Market Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. A profound consolation to early believers, these two books from the Bible deeply influenced the rise of the Christian church: the apocalyptic Revelation portraying the religion's ultimate triumph over its foes and The Book of Job depicting one man's faith in the face of incredible adversity.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: First Penguin Edition
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 25 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0141023856
ISBN 13: 9780141023854

Author Bio
Marco Polo was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271. He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan. There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher and political theorist, and one of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state. Regarded as an important early influence on the philosophy of utilitarianism, Hobbes also contributed to modern psychology and laid the foundations of modern sociology. Francois-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. He became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille. By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. His publication, three years later in France, of Lettres philosophiques sur les Anglais (1733), an attack on French Church and State, forced him to flee again. For twenty years Voltaire lived mainly away from Paris. Among his best-known books are satirical tales such as Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759). He died in Paris in 1778.