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The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars
The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world grapples with financial meltdowns, global terrorism, and environmental disasters—as well as the Mayan...
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Nostradamus (1503–1566) was a French doctor, astrologer, and seer believed to have predicted major world events.
Richard Sieburth (translator) is an award-winning translator of works by Henri Michaux, Michel Leiris, George Büchner, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Hölderlin. His translation for Penguin Classics of Gerard de Nerval’s Selected Writings won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.
Stéphane Gerson (introducer) is an award-winning historian of modern France and...
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0143107232
- ISBN 13 9780143107231
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages400
- EditorSieburth Richard, Gerson Stephane
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