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THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS, AND FAIRIES Robert Kirk VG PB 2006
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590171772
ISBN-13
9781590171776
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52631327
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret Commonwealth : of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Occult & Supernatural, Parapsychology / Esp (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy), Folklore & Mythology
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Fiction, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.7 Oz
Item Length
7.3 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-021076
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A slim quarto-size book (like a paperback novel in boards) and less than a hundred pages of text, this New York Review of Books edition is the first in more than a century and contains a well-written introduction and end notes by Marina Warner. Also included is Kirk's own glossary of "difficult words," in which we learn the 17th-century meanings of adscititious, defaecat, lychnobious and noctambulo." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology"--The Times Literary Supplement "The importance of Robert Kirk's manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours…"Folklore "Kirk's 'Secret Commonwealth' is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by…His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written…The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief."The Times Literary Supplement "[F]illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and 'glimpses of the moon'…"The Critic "[A] cult classic."The Glasgow Herald, "A slim quarto-size book (like a paperback novel in boards) and less than a hundred pages of text, this New York Review of Books edition is the first in more than a century and contains a well-written introduction and end notes by Marina Warner. Also included is Kirk's own glossary of "difficult words," in which we learn the 17th-century meanings of adscititious, defaecat, lychnobious and noctambulo." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology"-- The Times Literary Supplement "The importance of Robert Kirk's manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours…" Folklore "Kirk's 'Secret Commonwealth' is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by…His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written…The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief." The Times Literary Supplement "[F]illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and 'glimpses of the moon'…" The Critic "[A] cult classic." The Glasgow Herald, " A slim quarto-size book (like a paperback novel in boards) and less than a hundred pages of text, this New York Review of Books edition is the first in more than a century and contains a well-written introduction and end notes by Marina Warner. Also included is Kirk's own glossary of " difficult words, " in which we learn the 17th-century meanings of adscititious, defaecat, lychnobious and noctambulo." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer" " Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology" --"The Times Literary Supplement" " The importance of Robert Kirk's manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours... " - "Folklore" " Kirk's ' Secret Commonwealth' is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by... His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written... The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief." - "The Times Literary Supplement" " [F]illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and ' glimpses of the moon' ... " "- The Critic" " [A] cult classic." - "The Glasgow Herald", "Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology"--"The Times Literary Supplement" "The importance of Robert Kirk's manuscript for a deeper understanding of late seventeenth-century Scottish beliefs about fairies and second sight is hard to exaggerate. There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours..."-"Folklore ""Kirk's 'Secret Commonwealth' is one of those books which are well known but hard to come by...His little treatise is a most careful and thorough piece of work, made the more so by the spirit in which it was written...The result is one of the completest descriptions extant of that special phase of popular belief."-"The Times Literary Supplement" "ÝF¨illed with delightful maunderings on seers and second-sighters and 'glimpses of the moon'...""-The Critic ""ÝA¨ cult classic."-"The Glasgow Herald"
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Dewey Decimal
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Synopsis
The legendary chronicle of the supernatural that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott., Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these stories constituted strong evidence for the reality of a supernatural world, existing parallel to ours, which, he passionately believed demanded exploration as much as the New World across the seas. Kirk defended these views in The Secret Commonwealth , an essay that was left in manuscript when he died in 1692. It is a rare and fascinating work, an extraordinary amalgam of science, religion, and folklore, suffused with the spirit of active curiosity and bemused wonder that fills Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. The Secret Commonwealth is not only a remarkable document in the history of ideas but a study of enchantment that enchants in its own right.First published in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott, then re-edited in 1893 by Andrew Lang, with a dedication to Robert Louis Stevenson, The Secret Commonwealth has long been difficult to obtain--available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. This new edition modernizes the spelling and punctuation of Kirk's little book and features a wide-ranging and illuminating introduction by the critic and historian Marina Warner, who brings out the originality of Kirk's contribution and reflects on the ongoing life of fairies in the modern mind., Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these stories constituted strong evidence for the reality of a supernatural world, existing parallel to ours, which, he passionately believed demanded exploration as much as the New World across the seas. Kirk defended these views in The Secret Commonwealth , an essay that was left in manuscript when he died in 1692. It is a rare and fascinating work, an extraordinary amalgam of science, religion, and folklore, suffused with the spirit of active curiosity and bemused wonder that fills Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. The Secret Commonwealth is not only a remarkable document in the history of ideas but a study of enchantment that enchants in its own right. First published in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott, then re-edited in 1893 by Andrew Lang, with a dedication to Robert Louis Stevenson, The Secret Commonwealth has long been difficult to obtain--available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. This new edition modernizes the spelling and punctuation of Kirk's little book and features a wide-ranging and illuminating introduction by the critic and historian Marina Warner, who brings out the originality of Kirk's contribution and reflects on the ongoing life of fairies in the modern mind.
LC Classification Number
BF1434.S3K55 2006
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