299 pages.
A collection of essays concerning matters of life and death.
Contents: Introduction.--Our injustice to death.--Annihilation.--Communications with the dead.--The fate of our consciousness.--Two aspects of infinity.--Our fate in those infinities.--Conclusions.--The knowledge of the future.--In memoriam.--The life of the dead.--The war and the prophets.--The will of earth.--When the war is over.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Future life, 1910s
Dimensions
Height
9 in
Book Details
Author
Maurice Maeterlinck
Edition
First
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Place Published
City
New York
State/Province
New York
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1918
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau
Binding Designer
Decorative Designers
Binding Notes
Bound in a highly stylized art nouveau blue cloth decorative binding with a single gilt blossom with pale blue foliage. Title to spine and cover in gilt. Signed at the lower left with the conjoined DD monogram of the Decorative Designers. Deckled edges.
