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The Coming of the Fairies (Hardcover)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Pavilion Books; New edition edition (16 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862051224
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862051225
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 13.7 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 690,417 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The story of the Cottingley fairy photographs hoax. Includes eleven of the photographs which fooled the establishment, plus the original articles published in The Strand magazine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars By no means a childrens book, 8 Jun 2000
The comeing of the fairies is by no stretch of the imagination a childrens book. What it is is a fantastic piece if paranormal history and an unavoidable reference work for anyone interesed in fairies or the history of peoples willingness to beileve in faires
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5.0 out of 5 stars Background Information, 18 Aug 2002
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This book is essential reading for understanding the emergence of the saga of the Cottingley Fairies. It puts into perspective the happenings and sequence of events at the time the photographs were first published. It also outlines the tests together with the pros and cons about their wuthjenticity at the time.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Clap your hands if you believe in thought-forms - odd wee book about the wee folk, 2 Oct 2009
When I saw Conan Doyle's book on the Cottingley Fairies, I had to get it. Not, mark you, because I believe in fairies, (I most definitely don't), but because I was curious about why the man who invented Sherlock Holmes did so. And it seems Doyle believed in fairies because he was desperate for tangible signs that spiritual beings exist. Open-mindedness is a wonderful thing, but alas, Doyle's mind got so open you could've parked a bus in it. So he gets his chum Mr. Gardner to interview the girls who took the fairy-photographs and to chat with some photographers. Sure enough, Mr. Gardner finds the witnesses are all jolly good sorts of impeccable character. Doyle also announces that not all the professional photographers contacted claimed to be able to create duplicate fairy-photographs on demand, (although several of them did make that claim). In all this frenzy of open-mindedness, Doyle didn't learn a thing. He makes noises about being sceptical but any con-artist will tell you the easiest people to fool are those who pride themselves on their observational acumen and being hard to dupe. For one thing, Doyle going on about the lack of evidence of double exposures on the negatives is beside the point - if the Cottingley girls photographed cut-out pictures of fairies taken from books (which they did), they wouldn't have needed to expose any film twice. Likewise, photography has moved on a tad since 1920 and we can say categorically that any claims that the photos show evidence of the 'fairies' moving during the exposures are absurd. The book is reasonably written (as you'd expect from Doyle) but it's oddly organised: lots of speculations about whether fairies are real spiritual beings or 'thought-forms' projected by human subjects. Lots too of fantastical eye-witness stuff from people who clearly see fairies in battalions - usually when they're alone or where no one else can see them. And all concerned have a simply super time - except this reader, who just ended up feeling really sorry for Conan Doyle.
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