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"The Light Beyond" - Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos on the subject of spiritualism, a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. Contents include: "Our Injustice to Death", "Annihilation", "Communications with the Dead", "The Fate of our Consciousness", "Two Aspects of Infinity", "Our Fate in those Infinities", "Conclusions", "The Knowledge", "Heroism", "On Reading Thucydides", etc. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949) was a Belgian playwright, essayist, poet, and 1911 Nobel Prize winner. Other notable works by this author include: "Serres chaudes" (1889), "Douze chansons" (1896), and "Quinze chansons" (1900). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

The first is now published and is a brief study of veridical apparitions and hallucinations and haunted houses, or, if you will, the phantasms of the living and the dead; of those manifestations which have been oddly and not very appropriately described as "psychometric"; of the knowledge of the future: presentiments, omens, premonitions, precognitions, and the rest; and lastly of the Elberfeld horses. In the second, which will be published later, I shall treat of the miracles of Lourdes and other places, the phenomena of so called materialization, of the divining-rod and of fluidic asepsis, not unmindful withal of a diamond dust of the miraculous that hangs over the greater marvels in that strange atmosphere into which we are about to pass. ﷓Maurice Maeterlinck, from the Introduction to The Unknown GuestAUTHOR BIO:Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was born in Ghet, Belgium, into a prosperous Francophone Catholic family. Maeterlinck was closely associated with the French literary movement of symbolism, which used symbols to represent ideas and emotions. The author of more than 60 books replete with suggestions of universal mystery and auras of impending doom, Maeterlinck's work as a whole can be read as a symbolist manifesto. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.

A Maeterlinck Reader

Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.

This edition of Maeterlinck's "Peleas et Melisande" includes English language introduction and notes, and is designed to make accessible a classic text which heralded the ethos of modernism of the late 20th century.