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The Bright Messenger

Algernon Blackwood

The story centers on Edward Fillery, a detached yet deeply sympathetic psychologist and doctor, who grapples with his identity shaped by his unconventional birth and upbringing.

"The Bright Messenger" by Algernon Blackwood is a novel. The story centers on Edward Fillery, a detached yet deeply sympathetic psychologist and doctor, who grapples with his identity shaped by his unconventional birth and upbringing.

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EDWARD FILLERY, so far as may be possible to a man of normal passions and emotions, took a detached view of life and human nature. At the age of thirty-eight he still remained a spectator, a searching, critical, analytical, yet chiefly, perhaps, a sympathetic spectator, before the great performance whose stage is the planet and whose performers and auditorium are humanity.

Knowing himself outcast, an unwelcome deadhead at the play, he had yet felt no bitterness against the parents whose fierce illicit passion had deprived him of an honourable seat. The first shock of resentment over, he had faced the situation with a tolerance which showed an unusual charity, an exceptional understanding, in one so young.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I
  2. 02Chapter II
  3. 03Chapter III
  4. 04Chapter IV
  5. 05Chapter V
  6. 06Chapter VI
  7. 07Chapter VII
  8. 08Chapter VIII
  9. 09Chapter IX
  10. 10Chapter X
  11. 11Chapter XI
  12. 12Chapter XII
  13. 13Chapter XIII
  14. 14Chapter XIV
  15. 15Chapter XV
  16. 16Chapter XVI
  17. 17Chapter XVII
  18. 18Chapter XVIII
  19. 19Chapter XIX
  20. 20Chapter XX
  21. 21Chapter XXI
  22. 22Chapter XXII
  23. 23Chapter XXIII
  24. 24Chapter XXIV
  25. 25Chapter XXV
  26. 26Chapter XXVI
  27. 27Chapter XXVII

About this edition

Author
Algernon Blackwood
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
365 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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