The Purple Cloud (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series)
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It begins with the end of the world . . . As Wilde and Stevenson explored the duality of human nature in Jekyll and Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Shiel gave two voices to Adam Jeffson, the hero of The Purple Cloud. In some way, Jeffson is chosen, for he tells of hearing the voices from an early age. Adam Jeffson ends up as the first man to reach the North Pole -- alone -- where he finds a scene of wonder and terror described in Shiel's evocative prose. Jeffson struggles back to the ship, and along the way, the real horror begins.
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Do you know much about the philosophy of the hypnotic trance? That was the relation between us--hypnotist and subject. She had been under another man before my time, suffered from tic of the fifth nerve, had had most of her teeth drawn before I saw her, and an attempt had been made to wrench out the nerve on the left side by external scission.
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The Purple Cloud (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series),M. P. Shiel,John Clute,University of Nebraska Press,0803292791,20th Century English Novel And Short Story,Apocalyptic fantasies,End of the world,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Natural disasters,Science Fiction - General,Science fiction
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