Professor George Challenger has mellowed into old age. His wife Jessie and his rival Professor Summerlee have died. Challenger's daughter, Enid has acquired an interest in spiritualism. Several real-life advocates of occultism (including Aleister Crowley) are thinly disguised, as the skeptical Challenger enlists his colleagues Edward Malone and...More
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in 1887 for ‘A Study in Scarlet’, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in 1887 for ‘A Study in Scarlet’, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
Book Summary
Professor George Challenger has mellowed into old age. His wife Jessie and his rival Professor Summerlee have died. Challenger's daughter, Enid has acquired an interest in spiritualism. Several real-life advocates of occultism (including Aleister Crowley) are thinly disguised, as the skeptical Challenger enlists his colleagues Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton to infiltrate séances and expose the mediums as frauds… but mounting evidence for life after death compels Malone and Roxton to become believers. Eventually, Enid Challenger displays mediumistic abilities… and she brings her father a personal message from the beyond, containing information that no living person can have known. At last the bitter skeptic sees the truth.
Although Sherlock Holmes famously disbelieved in vampires and spooks, his creator was more credulous. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was interested in spiritualism long before his son and brother-in-law were killed in World War I, but their deaths intensified his efforts to pierce the veil.
— F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
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