Dec 23, 2009

The Land of Mist | The Land of Mist

At a glance:

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First Published: 1926
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
Time of Work: The 1920’s
Setting: London, England
Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Ghosts or apparitions, 1920’s, England or English people, London, Spiritualism
Locales: London, England

The Plot

In this novel, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger, the hero of The Lost World (1912), becomes a Spiritualist, just as Doyle himself had. Professor Challenger is annoyed when his daughter, Enid, and her sweetheart, Edward Malone, become convinced that the tenets of Spiritualism are true. They believe that there is life after death and that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living. At one Spiritualist meeting, a medium informs Enid that she herself possesses mediumistic abilities. At a séance, another medium, Tom Linden, materializes the...

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The Land of Mist | The Land of Mist

At a glance:

The Plot

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