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Dhoula Bel (or The Magic Globe) by Paschal Beverly Randolph




Dhoula Bel, or The Magic Globe, has long been considered the great “lost novel” of Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875), who was one of the greatest of all occult authors. Though the novel, very likely, was never actually published in book form, it did appear, under the byline “The Rosicrucian,” in the weekly paper The Spiritual Age, in nine installments, published between December 17, 1859 and February 11, 1860, the latter date being the date of the final issue of the paper.

The current volume brings together the entirety of the serial, and though the novel is in an “unfinished” state, it is the longest work of fiction ever published by Randolph. The novel, furthermore, was only the second novel to be published in the United States by an African American and the first to be published by an African American man.

This unique volume is subsidized by a scholarly afterword by Brendan Connell and four highly interesting appendices which revolve around Dhoula Bel and some of the background to its composition.



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