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A chi è rivolto
For readers who enjoy Doyle beyond Sherlock Holmes, Edwardian and 1920s settings, and stories about the spiritualist movement. Séances, quarrels in drawing rooms, and debates over evidence, grief and belief offer an adventure of ideas.
Che cos’è questo libro
The Land of Mist is a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1926 and first printed in magazine form. It brings back Professor Challenger, the roaring, bearded scientist of The Lost World. This time he faces no dinosaurs on a plateau. He faces a question that mattered deeply to Doyle in his later years: can the living speak with the dead?
Doyle wrote it as a believer. By the 1920s he had spent years lecturing and writing on spiritualism, and he wanted a story that would carry his case to readers who would never open a serious tract. So the book is part adventure of ideas, part comedy of a stubborn man, and part argument. You get séances, mediums, doubters, quarrels in drawing rooms and a family caught in the middle. You also get the old pleasure of watching Challenger shout. The first thing to meet is the man himself, as he stands in the book, older and alone.
In questo riassunto
- 1Challenger returns older, louder, and aloneFree
- 2Malone is sent to investigate the spirits
- 3A believer steps in to answer the professor
- 4Enid and Malone carry the quarrel into the family
- 5What the book says about proof, grief, and fraud
- 6A novel of argument told with a showman's hand
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Challenger returns older, louder, and alone
The story opens in the England of the 1920s, and Professor George Edward Challenger is no longer the man who led an expedition into unknown country. He has lost his wife, the small and patient woman who once softened his temper. Those who know the earlier books will feel her absence at once. The house is quieter, and the great man is a little more shut in with his own opinions.
Challenger is still a scientist to his bones. He believes in what can be measured, weighed and repeated in a laboratory. He holds the public in some contempt, and he holds fashionable beliefs in more. When people speak of messages from the dead, he does not argue gently. He thunders.
Doyle uses this loud figure as a test. If a man as hard as Challenger can be made to look again, the reader may be willing to look too. But Doyle does not make it easy for him, and he does not make it quick. The book lets Challenger keep his dignity, his rage and his wit for a long time.
Beside him stands his daughter Enid, a grown woman with a mind of her own. She is not her father's pupil in every matter. Through her, the story begins to open a door that her father would like to keep locked.
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Questions about La terra della nebbia
What is The Land of Mist about?
It follows Professor Challenger, a stubborn scientist, as his daughter and his friend Malone get drawn into séances and the spiritualist movement. The book is a story and an argument about proof, grief and belief.
Is The Land of Mist a Sherlock Holmes book?
No. It is a Professor Challenger novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a sequel to the adventure books that began with The Lost World. Holmes does not appear in it.
When was The Land of Mist written?
It was published in 1926, near the end of Doyle's life. By then he had become a leading public voice for spiritualism, and the novel carries his views.
Do I need to read The Lost World first?
No. Knowing Challenger and Malone from earlier books adds some pleasure, but the novel stands on its own and sets out its characters clearly enough for a new reader.
Is The Land of Mist worth reading today?
It is worth reading for Challenger's temper, its picture of 1920s debate over spirits, and as a view into Doyle's beliefs.