{"product_id":"the-mystery-paperback","title":"The Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH D\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Augustine's edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of editorial excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial to an understanding of the poet's creative processes and central themes. Every reader of modernist literature will want to have this edition at hand.\"--Donna Hollenberg, University of Connecticut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e, finished in 1951 but never before published, H.D. tells a tale of love, intrigue, and religious redemption. Drawn from her notes to her memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel imaginatively re-creates the history of her mother's Moravian Church, Unitas Fratrum, and its leader, Count Zinzendorf, from which she believed she had inherited a psychic \"gift.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This \"gift\" enables her to reenvision her inheritance. The Moravian cousins, Elizabeth de Watteville and Henry Dohna, Zinzendorf's grandchildren, travel to Prague in winter 1788, on the eve of the French Revolution. There they meet Count Louis Saint-Germain, a magician and counterrevolutionary plotter, whose life changes as he joins their search to find Zinzendorf's lost Plan for \"world unity without war.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A hybrid novel combining modernist stream-of-consciousness and medieval legend, \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e completes H.D.'s cycle of romances following \u003ci\u003eThe Sword Went Out to Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Rose and the Red\u003c\/i\u003e. It reveals her feminist theology and writes finis to her obsession with spiritualism. Jane Augustine's introduction and extensive notes provide a significantly enlarged view of H.D.'s religious thinking.\u003cp\u003eH.D., well-known as an Imagist poet, has reemerged as a major modernist writer through publication of her previously unavailable prose. Jane Augustine, an independent scholar, has written four books of poetry and numerous essays on women writers, gender, and religion. She also edited \u003ci\u003eThe Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eH.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, well-known as an Imagist poet, has reemerged as a major modernist writer through publication of her previously unavailable prose. \u003cb\u003eJane Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e, an independent scholar, has written four books of poetry and numerous essays on women writers, gender, and religion. She also edited \u003ci\u003eThe Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689646231615,"sku":"9780813035529","price":48.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ded27cc868a23eb7fe4fed57e290b487.webp?v=1764986218","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-mystery-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}