3 books by David Lindsay
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Overview: David Lindsay (3 March 1876 – 16 July 1945) was a Scottish author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus.
After the war Lindsay moved to Cornwall with his young wife to become a full-time writer. A Voyage to Arcturus was published in 1920, but it was not a success, selling fewer than six hundred copies. This work has links with other Scottish fantasists (for example, George MacDonald, whose work Lindsay was familiar with), and it was in its turn a central influence on C. S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet. Also, J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book "with avidity", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical Fiction
The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly: From the Author of a Voyage to Arcturus
France, 1700 — an age of wit and sophistication, frippery and flattery, reputation and ridicule; an age of politics, romance, intrigue and the sword.
Gaston de Mailly, ex-solider and down-at-heel gentleman, is living in a Paris that has little use for his skill with a blade. Fortunately, his wit is equally sharp. Allying himself to the sceptical lawyer Fleurus, Mailly offers to try his hand at any case that can’t be pursued through the normal channels of the law.
And so, in a series of adventures ranging from Mailly having to save himself from a reputation-destroying joke at the Court of the Sun King Louis XIV at Versailles, to fighting his way out, with both wits and sword, from the tangles of an assassination plot, Mailly puts his shoulder to the Wheel of Fortune in an age of rapid rise and fall, sudden danger and artful deception.
In the rakish charm and misanthropic wit of his hero Gaston de Mailly, David Lindsay, author of the early-20th century classic A Voyage to Arcturus, found a way to cut loose from his more serious fiction and indulge in theatrical intrigue, witty adventure and the artful picaresque to a highly entertaining degree.
But readers of Lindsay’s work will still find his key themes here: the lone hero caught between conflicting powers in a deceptive world; the individual’s struggle to retain integrity in a constrained yet superficial society; and the search for a lasting and genuine soul-mate — all served with adventure and intrigue, wit and witticism, sword and poniard!
(The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly was first published in the US as A Blade for Sale.)
The Haunted Woman
Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Loment, leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds.
Devil’s Tor
Half fiction, half philosophical treatise, Devil’s Tor reveals David Lindsay both at the height and the nadir of his creative powers. At its best, the novel is a deeply fascinating tale of fate, ancient prophesies, archeological discoveries, and cosmic mystery. At its worst, it’s tedious and poorly written. The book’s plot involves a young, beautiful woman, Ingrid Flemming, whose destiny to be the mother of the next messiah unfolds rapidly through a series of startling supernatural events centered upon Devil’s Tor, an ancient hill in England’s Dartmoor region. Underlying the story is Lindsay’s exploration of the myth of the Great Mother – a myth he correctly points out exists in nearly every culture on Earth. Through this myth Lindsay develops a theory on the underlying spiritual nature of the universe. As with Aldous Huxley in Island, Lindsay uses his story as a series of opportunities to lay out his complex views. He does not balance his theorizing with the needs of the story as gracefully as Huxley, however.
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The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly
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The Haunted Woman
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