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The Bright Messenger

By Algernon Blackwood

2021-05-21 21:58:05

Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a ‘primal quality’ in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those wi ... Read more
Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a ‘primal quality’ in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those with distressing psychological illnesses. When he hears of an unusual case in Switzerland he is intrigued and moved. The young male patient, apparently born of a ‘magical experiment’, is a man of mystical tendencies, a worshipper of natural forces. And when he sees a portrait of the patient, there is a brief, indefinable spark of recognition… Less

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File size437.077 KB
Print pages388
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0548454572
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Algernon Blackwood
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Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in...

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