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Excerpt from A Prisoner in Fairyland: The Book That 'Uncle Paul' WroteMan is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early, or too late.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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“Mr. Blackwood is a seer. He has visions. Many men have, but he can make others see them which is the gift of the very few.” -Philadelphia Public Ledger “It is hard to translate into everyday speech the fantasy and symbolism of the imaginative tale called ‘A Prisoner in Fairyland’. It should be allowed to carry its message in its own way to the heart of every reader tuned to receive it; and those who do receive it should feel in duty bound to pass its message of sympathy and helpful kindness on to others. Children are the medium through which this saving spark of sympathy is to be transmitted to a hard, care-weary world. In fact, the story turns on the endeavor of a father of a growing family to write a great Children’s Play – a play of sympathy, sweet endeavor, love, and sacrifice for others that is to bring the world back to fairyland; that is, to a sense of peace and joy in life, and also some gold into the family purse….The book breathes a kindly human spirit and gentle philosophy, and there is a slight plot, simply told, that fastens the whole thing to earth. One wishes everybody to read this book, but one hesitates to dissect or explain it too much, from a vague fear of losing one’s own hold on the half-real creations and perhaps forfeiting one’s seat in the Starlight Express which is waiting every night for those who will take it.” -The Outlook “The ordinary mystic is well content if his vision may conjure up from the dim shadowland that lies at the Back of Beyond, the pale, ineffectual ghosts of yesterday – ineffectual shapes forever pathetically dumb. There are no vaguely moving shadows in the realms of Blackwood’s world – his transcendent imagination rising to the nth sense invests his characters with the contours of living beings. For, above all, he is a practical mystic with a message for this generation.” -The Living Age “Mr. Blackwood proved himself a poet with visions, a prophet with declarations, a magician evoking through description the stupendous mystery and meaning of nature, and by delicate implications weaving out of man’s dreams and desires and acts the truth in human nature.” This the Boston Transcript once characterized the author of this book. A Prisoner in Fairyland is as charming a story as any Mr. Blackwood has ever written, as rich in beauty of imagery and as significant in its symbolism. It is but another justification of his right to the title which has more than once been applied to him, “an artistic realist of the unseen world.” “Again there comes from Mr. Blackwood a story unlike anything in contemporary fiction.” -Boston Transcript “There is delightful fun in the story; there are many quaint and odd rimes. In fact, the book is a mine of riches for its beauties, its tenderness, its warm human sympathies, its clever delineations of characters.” -Kentucky Post

Minks—Herbert Montmorency—was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser, friend; and this, more because he was a safe receptacle for his employer's enthusiasms than because his advice or judgment had any exceptional value. So many men need an audience. Herbert Minks was a fine audience, attentive, delicately responsive, sympathetic, understanding, and above all—silent. He did not leak. Also, his applause was wise without being noisy. Another rare quality he possessed was that he was honest as the sun. To prevaricate, even by gesture, or by saying nothing, which is the commonest form of untruth, was impossible to his transparent nature. He might hedge, but he could never lie. And he was 'friend,' so far as this was possible between employer and employed, because a pleasant relationship of years' standing had established a bond of mutual respect under conditions of business intimacy which often tend to destroy it.

Algernon Blackwood was a prolific writer across short stories, novels and plays. His passion for the supernatural and for ghost stories together with a fascination for all things in the occult and mysticism created some of the most enthralling works ever written. HP Lovecraft referred to his works as that of a master. Henry James in referring to The Bright Messenger said "the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarfs the subject." Many other authors similarly lauded him. Today his works are beginning to regain their former popularity. Here we publish one of his classic novels, A Prisoner In Fairyland, one of a number of books that any fan of the occult should read.

A curious, unusual, puzzling type of book. The story of the awakening of a London financier who, after long years spent in the amassing of a fortune, reverts to his early dream of becoming a great philanthropist. Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century."

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