"The story of the possession of a commonplace, easy-going man by the furtive, restless spirit of a French suicide, a sort of low conjuror and adventurer dead several centuries." --entire blurb in section Fiction IV, "New Books of the Spring Season: An Annotated List of Recent and Forthcoming [US] Publications [...]", NY Times 1911-04-09 pBR220-26
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