| The Unknown Guest by Maurice Maeterlinck, Supernatural, Ghost Contributor(s): Maeterlinck, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247474 ISBN-13: 9781592247479 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: A Nobel Prize-winning author in Literature in 1911, Maeterlinck's more than 60 volumes, with their suggestion of universal mystery and sense of impending doom, can be read as a symbolist manifesto. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Ancient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge |
| Dewey: 001.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.02 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: My Essay on Death led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavored to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them except their sincerity, their impartiality and a certain scrupulous accuracy. But, as I proceeded, I saw the field widening under my feet, so much so that I have been obliged to divide my work into two almost equal parts. The first is now published and is a brief study of veridical apparitions and hallucinations and haunted houses, or, if you will, the phantasms of the living and the dead; of those manifestations which have been oddly and not very appropriately described as "psychometric"; of the knowledge of the future: presentiments, omens, premonitions, precognitions and the rest; and lastly of the Elberfeld horses. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Maeterlinck, Maurice: - "Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations." The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement." |
