The Unknown Guest - Softcover

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1545081581 ISBN 13: 9781545081587

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The unknown guest within ourselves, sometimes called the psychic self, has called forth this strangely beautiful and exquisitely worded book.

"The mysteries of the universe, of known forces that impinge upon the soul, of significances that elude expression, of experiences that seem to pierce the infinite. It is worthwhile to speculate about the unknowable things that lie so little below the surface of our matter-of-fact world, to think of the wisdom of the flowers and the instinct of the bee, intuitive sympathies and haunting presences, and all the experiences of aesthetic and personal emotion that defy analysis and conceptual regularity, and yet which bathe the life of every mind of the slightest poetical sensitiveness. About all of these Maeterlinck has written with charm and truthfulness." -The New Republic

"Maurice Maeterlinck is a particularly clear-minded and hard-headed individual whose intellectual birthplace is Missouri. He is not a 'mystic' because he is muddle-headed, but because he refuses to blink facts. And when he addresses the infant class, instead of the post-graduate students, of his specialty, there is no man living who can be so intelligible, so lucid and so broadmindedly unbiased. If anyone is curious to be put straightforwardly up to date upon the known facts and the scientific theories of possible explanation in the field of the so-called occult - in the matter of telepathy, spiritualism, apparitions, premonitions, clairvoyance and the rest - Maeterlinck's 'The Unknown Guest' will be found to outrank in simpleness, in candor and in comprehensiveness any single treatise on the subject." -Life Magazine

"The thought of the Belgian mystic has in recent years been turning toward the problems of psychical research and he has become convinced that there is experimental evidence for the existence of ghosts and supernormal powers of mind." -The Independent

"Sir Oliver Lodge, physicist and president of the London Society of Psychical Research, has declared his belief in the reality of a future life. The world of science turns to him an ear quivering with interest. For Sir Oliver is a scientist par excellence. In his latest work, 'The Unknown Guest,' Maurice Maeterlinck expresses himself like Lodge. The literary world strains with attention. Maeterlinck is a superb writer." -America

"Five papers make up the contents of this book. The first, Phantasms of the living and the dead, is a consideration of certain cases of veridical apparitions and hallucinations, and of haunted houses. The next, Psychometry, has to do with some of the phenomena of clairvoyance. The third paper, Knowledge of the future, takes up premonitions. The fourth, The Elberfeld horses, is a study of animal psychology. The last, The unknown guest, considers the subconscious self." -Book Review Digest

"A fascinating subject is treated with fascinating effect." -The Atheneum

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

CHAPTER II. PSYCHOMETRY

CHAPTER III. THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE

CHAPTER IV. THE ELBERFELD HORSES

CHAPTER V. THE UNKNOWN GUEST

About this title

About the Author:

The Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) is remembered best as a pioneer of Symbolist drama in the 1890s. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, Maeterlinck was also a prolific and accomplished essayist. Alexander Louis Teixeira de Mattos San Payo y Mendes (April 9, 1865 – December 5, 1921), known as Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, was a Dutch-English journalist, literary critic and publisher, who gained his greatest fame as a translator. (Wikipedia)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1545081581
• ISBN 13: 9781545081587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206