The Land of Mists

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The Land of Mists is a novella written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926. Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and her colleague. Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of "ten million young men" in World War I was by punishment by the Central Intelligence for humanity's laughing at the alleged evidence for life after death.

[edit] Chapter list

1. In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a Start
2. Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company
3. In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion
4. Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith
5. Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable Experience
6. In Which the Reader Is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal
7. In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What the British Law Considers To Be His Deserts
8. In Which Three Investigators Come Across a Dark Soul
9. Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena
10. De Profundis
11. Where Silas Linden Comes Into His Own
12. There Are Heights And There Are Depths
13. In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth To Battle
14. In Which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague
15. In Which Traps Are Laid For a Great Quarry
16. In Which Challenger Has the Experience of His Life
17. Where the Mists Clear Away

[edit] External links

• The Land of Mist etext at classic-literature.co.uk.