Author : Robert Kirk
Release : 2007
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 776/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by : Robert Kirk
Download or read book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies written by Robert Kirk. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secret Commonwealth is a guide to fairies, doppelgängers, wraiths, and other beings that its author Robert Kirk, an unusually inquisitive seventeenth-century Scottish minister, identifies as being ?of a middle nature betwixt man and angel.? Circulated in manuscript by its author, whose religious and scientific interests drew him at some genuine personal risk to investigate the hidden realities of the spiritual world, this short work was first published by Sir Walter Scott and then again in the late nineteenth century in an edition prepared by the famous collector of fairy tales, Andrew Lang, and dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson. Nonetheless, Kirk’s work, which is a fine example of English prose, an important document in the history of ideas, and an enchanting introduction to fairy lore has remained a rarity"--Publisher description.