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A Strange Story
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Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781773566139
Publisher: Devoted Publishing
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 476
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reason and the supernatural collide in a world where hidden powers may lie just beyond the limits of science.
In A Strange Story by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Dr. Allen Fenwick is a respected physician devoted to logic, science, and rational explanation. Newly settled in a quiet town with his beloved wife, he believes firmly that human experience can be understood through reason alone.
That certainty is shaken by the arrival of the enigmatic Margrave-a charismatic and deeply unsettling figure whose strange abilities and influence seem to defy natural law. As Fenwick becomes increasingly entangled in mysteries surrounding Margrave and the troubled young woman Lilian Ashleigh, he is drawn into a conflict involving mesmerism, occult knowledge, and forces he cannot easily explain away.
What begins as skepticism gradually becomes a struggle between material reason and hidden spiritual realities. Fenwick must confront not only the possibility that unseen powers exist, but also the moral dangers attached to the pursuit of forbidden knowledge and unnatural ambition.
Blending gothic atmosphere with speculative philosophy and occult themes, A Strange Story explores the tension between science and mysticism, questioning whether human understanding can fully grasp the deeper forces shaping life and consciousness.
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