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Algernon Blackwood - Julius LeVallon (1916)
A little information about the author:
Name: Algernon Henry Blackwood
Born: Shooter's Hill, 1869
Education: Moravian Brotherhood, Germany; Wellington College, Cambridge
Married: never
Progeny: none
Age when this book was written: About forty-seven
Contents:
BOOK I - Schooldays (chapters 1 to 8)
"Dream faces bloom around your face
Like flowers upon one stem;
The heart of many a vanished race
Sighs as I look on them."
- A. E.
BOOK II - Edinburgh (chapters 9 to 14)
We do not know where sentient powers, in the widest sense of the term, begin or end. And there may be disturbances and moods of Nature wherein the very elemental forces approach sentient being, so that, perhaps, mythopœic man has not been altogether a dreamer of dreams. I need not dwell on the striking reflections to which this possibility gives rise; enough that an idealistic dynamism forces the possibility on our view. If the life of Nature is from time to time, and under special conditions, raised to the intense requisite level, we are in the presence of elemental forces whose character primitive man has not entirely misunderstood.
- “Individual and Reality” (E. D. Fawcett).
BOOK III - The Châlet in the Jura Mountains (chapters 15 to 24)
He (man) first clothes the gods in the image of his own innermost nature; he personifies them as modes of his own greater consciousness. All this was native to him when he still felt himself kin with Nature; when he felt rather than thought, when he followed instinct rather than ratiocination. But for long centuries this feeling of kinship with Nature has been gradually weakened by the powerful play of that form of mind peculiar to man; until he has at last reached a stage when he finds himself largely divorced from Nature, to such an extent indeed that he treats her as something foreign and apart from himself. . . .
He seems at present, at any rate in the persons of most of the accredited thinkers of the West, to be absolutely convinced that no other mode of mind can exist except his own mode. . . . To say that Nature thinks, he regards as an entire misuse of language. . . . That Nature has feelings even, he will not allow; to speak of love and hate among the elements is for him a puerile fancy the cultured mind has long outgrown.
The sole joy of such a mind would almost seem to be the delight of expelling the life from all forms and dissecting their dead bodies.
- “Some Mystical Adventures” (G. R. S. Mead).
BOOK IV - The Attempted Restitution (chapters 25 to 32)
There are thirty-two chapters altogether.
A rough list of his novels:
Jimbo: a Fantasy (1909)
The Education of Uncle Paul (children's novel) (1909)
The Human Chord (novel) (1910)
The Centaur (novel) (1911)
A Prisoner in Fairyland (children's novel) (1913)
The Extra Day (children's novel) (1915)
Julius LeVallon: an episode (novel) (1916)
The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath (novel) (1916)
The Promise of Air (children's novel) (1918)
The Garden of Survival (novel) (1918)
The Bright Messenger (novel) (1921)
Sambo and Snitch (children's novel) (1927)
Dudley and Gilderoy: A Nonsense (children's novel) (1929)
Full Circle (????) (1929)
The Fruit Stoners (children's novel) (1934)
Shocks (????) (1935)
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