An Old Story Retold E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

In An Old Story Retold, Arthur Conan Doyle reimagines a classic biblical or moral tale in a contemporary Victorian setting. Subtle and thought-provoking, the narrative draws parallels between ancient parable and modern life, highlighting enduring human weaknesses such as vanity, betrayal, or greed. This literary exercise blends allegory and fiction with quiet irony.

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An Old Story Retold

The Uncharted Coast Series

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

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Published in The Strand Magazine, November 1920

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Published in The Strand Magazine, November 1920

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WHETHER the reader belongs to that majority who are incredulous upon the subject, or to that increasing minority who accept the evidence, he can hardly fail to be interested in the circumstances in which the whole strange psychic movement arose. The student is aware that there was a long preparatory stage which began with Swedenborg and Mesmer, and ended with Andrew Jackson Davis, called the Poughkeepsie Seer, who at an early age, without education, wrote or dictated one of the deepest, most comprehensive explanations of the universe ever framed. Passing these we will begin the narrative with the happenings of Hydesville, and give some account of these less-known developments which followed the new movement, sometimes to its great glory and sometimes to its temporary degradation.

The hamlet of Hydesville, near Rochester, in the State of New York, consisted of a cluster of wooden houses of a very humble type. In one of these, a residence which would hardly pass the requirements of a British district council surveyor, there began this development which will, in my opinion, prove to be far the most important thing which America has given to the common weal of the world. It was inhabited by a decent farmer family of the name of Fox—a name which, by a curious coincidence, has been already registered in religious history as that of the evangel of the Quakers. Besides the father and mother, who were Methodists in religion, there were two children resident in the house at the time when the manifestations reached such a point of intensity that they attracted general attention. These children were the daughters, Margaret, aged fifteen, and Kate, aged twelve.