Doctor Heidenhoff’s Process by Edward Bellamy
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Doctor Heidenhoff’s Process by Edward Bellamy
Published: William Reeves, London 1890
Condition: Good. Original green cloth somewhat worn, with title stamped in red on front board. An exlibrary book from the Edinburgh Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) is better known as a utopian science fiction writer, whose visionary views spawned a political movement. This is an earlier work, its theme is psychological. The ‘process’ in question is a method of removing traumatic memories; the novel explores the unforeseen tragic results that may follow from doing so.
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