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The Mask of Apollo and Other Stories
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Author's Note · ¶¶ 1–2
The Mask of Apollo and Other Stories
p. 2AUTHOR'S NOTE
THESE stories long ago crept like living creatures into my mind, and the recording of them was my first effort to write. I had kept them by me, hoping sometime to be able to improve them, but I find with sorrow I have passed too far away from the mystical mood in which they were written, and they must remain as they are. I have printed them less from my own desire than at the desire of some friends who remember the spiritual adventures we had when we were boys, and who wished for some memorial of them; so to them I dedicate the stories I have selected which seem to me to have most in them of the old life.
A.E.
Socrates
Reading The Mask of Apollo and Other Stories · Author's Note · ¶¶ 1–2
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Æ’s The Mask of Apollo and Other Stories gathers seven visionary tales in which Greek gods, Celtic memory, Indian wisdom, cosmic birth, and the moral power of imagination cross the borders between ordinary life and spiritual perception. This single-language Literary Fiction edition presents the complete supplied English working text in a continuous reader.
Historical Text
The stories were first gathered in Dublin by Whaley in an undated edition conventionally assigned to 1904. The reading text follows the seven tales as supplied in an editable transcription derived from Project Gutenberg eBook No. 8105, Imaginations and Reveries (1915). The transcription restores the collection’s compact form while noting that the later collected text may contain revisions and has not been line-by-line collated against every first-edition page image.
About This Edition
This English Edition preserves the supplied story sequence, paragraph boundaries, verse lineation, scene breaks, and authorial note. Its twenty-two branches follow the numbered working-text pages for comfortable reading and stable saved places; those page references are approximate rather than claims of facsimile-exact first-edition pagination.
Rights
The collection was published no later than 1905, and George William Russell died in 1935. The underlying English-language text is in the public domain in the United States and in jurisdictions using an ordinary life-plus-70 term.