The Coming of the Fairies - Softcover

Arthur Conan Doyle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443806129 ISBN 13: 9781443806121

Publisher: CSP Classic Texts, 2009

Synopsis

This volume is the upshot of Conan Doyle's high-profile championing of the authenticity of the Cottingley photographs, purporting to be of fairies; it touches on the author's belief in Spiritualism and contains much reference to the related but distinct creed of Theosophism.

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About the Author:

The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, and invention, indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time he was also very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame and notoriety for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer.

Review:

The aging Conan Doyle, who was a noted spiritualist, in 1922 wrote this slim volume in which he presented the facts of the phenomenon known as the Cottingley photographs, which depicted two young girls playing with what appear to be fairies. Though he apparently believed in their authenticity, Sir Arthur lets readers decide for themselves --Not Available

About this edition

• Publisher: CSP Classic Texts
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1443806129
• ISBN 13: 9781443806121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 79