The Human Chord: Volume 51

by Algernon Blackwood

Book Overview

When Robert Spinrobin, drifting through life in a daydream, answers a newspaper ad asking for an imaginative tenor with a grasp of ancient languages, he soon finds himself travelling to rural Wales and the home of ex-clergyman, Philip Skale. Here Skale, the housekeeper Mrs. Mawle and her niece, Miriam, have been pursuing a new science, harnessing sound to discover the true names of people - and recording the uncanny phenomena and transformations that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712355413
• ISBN13: 9780712355414
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 208 Pages