by Camille Flammarion (Author), Emily Dickinson (Essay by), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Essay by)
First published in 1920, this book contains the first volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion's "Death and its Mystery", which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume, Flammarion concentrates on the soul and explores a variety of historical cases and investigations that purport to prove the existence thereof, examining their validity in light of scientific facts. Contents include: "The Greatest of Problems--Can it Actually be Solved?", "Materialism--An Erroneous, Incomplete, and Insufficient Doctrine", "What is Man? Does the Soul Exist?", "Supra-normal Faculties of the Soul, Unknown or Little Understood", "The Will, Acting Without the Spoken Word, Without a Sign, and at a Distance", "Telepathy and Psychic Transmissions at a Distance", etc. Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (1842-1925) was a French author and astronomer. A prolific writer, he produced over fifty books including science fiction novels, works on astronomy, and works on physical research. Other titles by this author include: "The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds" (1862), "Real and Imaginary Worlds" (1865), and "God in Nature" (1866). Read & Co. Science is proudly republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with introductory poems by Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley.