{"product_id":"the-human-chord","title":"The Human Chord","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 this naming ritual brings in the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith possibilities of mind-melding and sublime spiritual awakenings already documented, it is not long before Skale pivots towards a grander master plan to intone a forbidden name beyond the preserve of humanity – while a gathering storm of disastrous cosmic consequences threatens to break.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1910 but lost for most of the twentieth century, Blackwood’s tour-de-force novel is long overdue rediscovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Mark Ashley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358272495956,"sku":"A8B-36692","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/The_20human_20chord.jpg?v=1790814644","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/the-human-chord","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}