The light beyond / by Maurice Maeterlinck ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

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Title: The light beyond / by Maurice Maeterlinck ; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
Alternative Title: Our eternity.
Unknown guest.
Wrack of the storm.
Creator: Decorative Designers (Firm)
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921
Published / Created: 1917
Publication Place: New York :
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company,
Description: Binding design, signed D[backward D], by Decorative Designers.
Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Inscribed: A very Merry Christmas 1917 to Faith from Russell.
Introduction -- 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 of the future -- Heroism -- On rereading Thucydides -- The dead do not die. -- In memoriam -- The life of the dead -- The war and the prophets -- The will of earth -- When the war is over.
The "essays ... are taken [from] Our eternity, The unknown guest and The wrack of the storm"--P. vii.
Translated from the French.
Extent: vii, 299 p. ; 23 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Book covers
Covers (Illustrations)
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)--United States--1917.--rbbin
Resource Type: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Topic): Future life
Parapsychology
Parapsychology--Research

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