The Land of Mist

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

The Land of Mist is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1926. Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and her colleague. Heavily influenced by Doyle’s growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone’s at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of ‘ten million young men’ in World War I was by punishment by the Central Intelligence for humanity’s laughing at the alleged evidence for life after death.

George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle’s laid-back, analytic character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, dominating figure.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone (1890), The Captain of the Polestar (1890), The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892), Beyond the City (1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), The Great Boer War (1900), The Green Flag (1900), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), and The Lost World (1912).

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Wonderful narration for a silly book

Even if one excepts the book in the historical framework of the author, it is still a silly book, much like the Poison Belt.

I guess I will come find myself to the singular joy I get from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

A very interesting read from Sir ACD that I had never heard about.

Not generally my genre but a great read and excellent performance. The story setting and plot was kept me listening to the very end.

Chilling

Having read Doyle many times I was caught off guard by his handle on Spiritualism. His other books focus so much on logic that reading this makes Doyle more well rounded revealing a man both logical and deeply spiritual.

Lightning didn't strike twice

While I can lose myself in the Lost World and Sherlock Holmes, this effort by Doyle was a dull disappointment. While he inserts characters from the Lost World, they just don't work for me. I understand spiritualism was a " thing" back then, but not now.

A wonderful glimpse into the spiritual mindset of the author

I love Sherlock Holmes and have always felt helpless, defensive, and angry at what I have perceived as the duping of such a talented writer and rational thinker as Conan Doyle. Like any of his works. The book is well written and holds the attention well. But it was very clear that he wanted to cram as much “evidence” into the novel as possible. He managed it well enough. But it was clear throughout that this book is spiritualist propaganda. Still, his heart was and ever remains pure. That is what I have always loved about him and why it hurts me so and makes me so angry at the many psychics he believed and endorsed that were later ousted. However, he has a plausible explanation for this, and who knows, when we pass over, we may well learn that they were right and genuine all along and history got the story wrong.

Interesting view of Arthur Conan Doyle

The story might not be the most moving, but this book is worth a read simply because it sheds a light on one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peculiarities: his obsession with mysticism. This book helps you get into his frame of mind and understand what he was thinking as he rejected materialism and his trademark rationality.
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