Shadows and Elephants
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| ISBN: |
0967952034 (978-0967952031) |
| Author: |
Edward Hower |
| Publisher: |
Leapfrog Press |
| Pub. Date: |
2001-01-01 |
| Dewey#: |
813.54 |
| Edition: |
1st |
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Paperback |
| Volume(s): |
1 |
| Pages: |
250 |
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$14.95 |
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Customer Reviews
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Diminished Blavatsky
2002-03-17,
5 of 5 found this review helpful.
I was eager to read a novel about Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott, the now-revered founders of Theosophy, but thought the author did better with Henry Olcott (Ben in the novel) than with Blavatsky (Irinia in the novel). Too often, Irinia is the comic butt of Ben's good sense and serious spiritual quest. I liked the descriptions of India; I loved the supposed excerpts from Blavatsky's tales and Olcott's journals; but SHADOWS & ELEPHANTS makes Blavatsky/Irinia almost wholly a neurotic fraud, giving no explanation of the spiritual power she exerts over followers even today.
Editorial Reviews
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Set in Gilded Age New York City, India and Ceylon, Shadows and Elephants is a sensuous historical novel about the search for love and enlightenment, based on the lives of the notorious mystic, Madame Helena Blavatsky and her devoted cohort, Civil War hero Colonel Henry Olcott, whose popular 19th Century movement promoting communication with the dead was a world wide cause celebre that saw them praised and reviled on 3 continents.
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