Издания и произведения

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena. Public reaction was mixed;…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published "The Coming of the Fairies" in 1922. Doyle's book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence. This quirky and fascinating book allows us to get inside the mind of an intelligent, highly respected man who happened to believe in fairies. John…

Однажды, заинтересовавшись фотографиями предполагаемых фей из Конттингли, Артур Конан Дойл начинает активную деятельность в поисках доказательств существования фейри. Он находит однодумца Эдварда Л. Гардера, который также помогает в общем деле. Само произведение состоит в основном из писем различных людей, в том числе Артура Конана Дойля и Эдварда Гардера.

Однажды, заинтересовавшись фотографиями предполагаемых фей из Конттингли, Артур Конан Дойл начинает активную деятельность в поисках доказательств существования фейри. Он находит однодумца Эдварда Л. Гардера, который также помогает в общем деле. Само произведение состоит в основном из писем различных людей, в том числе Артура Конана Дойля и Эдварда Гардера.

This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This narrative is not a special plea for that authenticity, but is simply a collection of facts the inferences from which may be accepted or rejected as the reader may think fit. I would warn the critic, however, not to be led away by the sophistry that because some professional trickster, apt at the game of deception, can produce a somewhat similar effect, therefore the originals were…

This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley fairies together with a detailed analysis of their authenticity by British writer Author Conan Doyle. The Cottingley fairies were a series of five photographs taken by two young cousins who resided in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. The photographs purportedly captured images of fairies, and gained widespread attention at the time. They were later admitted to be fakes by the girls—except one, which Frances maintained was in fact real and the inspiration or the forgeries. Contents include: “How The Matter Arose”, “The First Published Account–'Strand' Christmas Number, 1920”,…

Словно великий сыщик Шерлок Холмс, сэр Артур Конан Дойль, блестящий писатель и убежденный спиритуалист, расследует в этой книге историю с фотографиями фей, сделанными в первые десятилетия XX в. двумя девочками из глухой английской деревушки. Его верным Уотсоном становится мистик и теософ Э. Гарднер. Не жалея сил, они идут по следу, собирая доказательства существования фей и других духов природы – элементалей, хранителей растений. Эта книга стоила Конан Дойлю дружбы и уважения многих людей. Более шестидесяти лет спустя мистификация кузин из Коттингли была разоблачена, но и тогда они продолжали настаивать, что видели у деревенского ручья…