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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

1911214 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1911
first published
  • 20061st World Library - Literary Society · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781421829166
  • 20061st World Library - Literary Society · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781421830162
  • 2004IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781414271507
  • 2004IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781414271514
  • 2006IndyPublish.com · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781421977041
  • 2006Hard Press · 214 pages · ENGISBN 9781406940633
  • 2006BiblioBazaar · 266 pages · ENGISBN 9781426438158
  • 2007Dodo Press · 268 pages · ENGISBN 9781406520699

"We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all." On a cruise through the Greek islands, a man encounters a handsome father and his son. He is strangely drawn to his fellow travelers, and discovers with some elation that they will all share a cabin aboard ship. Tricks of the light seem to join the pair into a single being when they walk ashore, and at times a third, much larger being appears to join them.

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