The Centaur (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- First Published: 1911
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—Magical Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Aboard ship through the Mediterranean Sea, and the Caucasus
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mythical animals, Twentieth century, Nature, Ships, Russia or Russian people, Mediterranean
- Locales: Mediterranean
The Plot
At the start of The Centaur readers are introduced to Terence O’Malley by his executor, who recounts the story after O’Malley’s death. In his executor’s telling of the story, O’Malley is a psychic and sensitive who responds to the moods and passion of Nature. By profession O’Malley is a journalist, a foreign correspondent whose latest commission is to write about the Caucasus. He had also turned his pen to fiction, producing two books of psychic tales. These had led O’Malley to correspond with a German doctor, Heinrich Stahl.
The two meet on...
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