Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world-seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit-the reader and Mr. Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde-not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. „Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe,” the great 20th-century poet W.H.
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