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"After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous spokesman was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Known to the world as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle underwent what many people at the time considered an enigmatic transformation, turning his back on the hyper-rational Holmes and plunging into the supernatural. What was it that convinced a brilliant man like Doyle, the creator of the great exemplar of cold, objective thought, that there was a reality beyond the reality?...Using the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a lens, Bechtel probes this largely unexplored movement, a movement rife with fraud but also full of genuine evidence that is difficult to dismiss..."--
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Spiritualism, Spiritualists, Literature and spiritualism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Religion, Spiritual life, RELIGION / Spirituality, Scottish Authors, Biography, History, Doyle, arthur conan, sir, 1859-1930, Authors, scottish, Authors, biographyTimes
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Through a glass, darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the quest to solve the greatest mystery of all
2017, St. Martin's Press
in English
- First edition.
125007679X 9781250076793
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index.
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