Arthur Conan Doyle

The History of Spiritualism

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1926 publication focuses on key practitioners and contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century spiritualism and the passions and controversies surrounding it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781108033206
• ISBN-10: 1108033202
• Artikelnr.: 33628044

Autorenporträt

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement", helped to popularize the mystery of the Mary Celeste.

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Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The story of Swedenborg
2. Edward Irving: the Shakers
3. The prophet of the new revelation
4. The Hydesville episode
5. The career of the Fox sisters
6. First developments in America
7. The dawn in England
8. Continued progress in England
9. The career of D. D. Home
10. The Davenport brothers
11. The researches of Sir William Crookes (1870¿4)
12. The Eddy brothers and the Holmeses
13. Henry Slade and Dr. Monck
14. Collective investigations of spiritualism.