Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

✍ Weschler, Lawrence 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 4 MB

Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the f

✍ Lawrence Weschler 📂 Fiction 📅 2013;1996 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 459 KB 👁 3 views

Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the f

Why? Charles Tilly's Cabinet of Wonders

✍ Lynn Eden 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 168 KB

The Cabinet of Wonders

✍ Rutkoski, Marie 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Square Fish 🌐 English ⚖ 230 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Add this heady mix of history and enchantment to the season's list of astonishingly accomplished first novels: in Rutkoski's multilayered version of late 16th-century Bohemia, magicians coexist with peasants and courtiers, a tribe of gypsies use specially endowed ghost fi

The Cabinet of Wonders

✍ Rutkoski, Marie 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 190 KB

The Cabinet of Wonders

✍ Rutkoski, Marie 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Perfection Learning 🌐 English ⚖ 177 KB

Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But its never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with h