The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (And For The Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going Under the Name of Elves, Fauns & Fairies by Robert Kirk

The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (And For The Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going Under the Name of Elves, Fauns & Fairies

Robert Kirk with Marina Warner (Contributor)

80 pages first pub 1815 (editions)

nonfiction classics reference informative mysterious slow-paced
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Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners’ many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk’s words,...

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Moods

informative 100%
mysterious 62%
challenging 25%
reflective 25%
funny 12%
hopeful 12%
lighthearted 12%

Pace

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medium 28%
fast 14%

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