{"product_id":"9781455406777","title":"The Unknown Guest","description":"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. \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e﷓Maurice Maeterlinck, from the Introduction to The Unknown Guest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAUTHOR BIO:\u003cbr\u003eMaurice 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B\u0026R Samizdat Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143393591536,"sku":"9781455406777","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781455406777_p0.jpg?v=1763866489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781455406777","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}