The Paper Fairies

ISBN-13: 9783565208159 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str.

Arthur Lens

Opis

"The Paper Fairies - How two schoolgirls fooled the creator of Sherlock Holmes" tells the charming yet baffling story of the Cottingley Fairies. In 1917, two young cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, took photos of themselves playing with dancing fairies at the bottom of their garden. The fairies were obviously paper cutouts held up by hatpins. Yet, the photos fooled the world.Author Arthur Lens explores how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the logical mind behind Sherlock Holmes, became the girls' biggest champion. Consumed by his belief in Spiritualism after losing his son in WWI, Doyle desperately wanted the photos to be real proof of the supernatural."The Paper Fairies" is a story about the will to believe. It contrasts the innocence of a childhood prank with the desperate grief of a war-torn generation, showing that even the smartest people can be blinded by what they hope to see.

Read the story of how two girls with paper cutouts and a camera tricked the world's smartest man into believing in fairies.