The Light Beyond - Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Maurice Maeterlinck

Jan 2021 · Read Books Ltd

About this eBook

“The Light Beyond” - Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos on the subject of spiritualism, a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people. Contents include: “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”, “Heroism”, “On Reading Thucydides”, etc. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862 – 1949) was a Belgian playwright, essayist, poet, and 1911 Nobel Prize winner. Other notable works by this author include: “Serres chaudes” (1889), “Douze chansons” (1896), and “Quinze chansons” (1900). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.