- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Backinprint.com (January 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0595151876
- ISBN-13: 978-0595151875
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 971 g
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#1,853,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #94 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > New Age
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An important mesmerizing saga of a woman both magnificently a part of--and gloriously at odds with--her own times.
Madame Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, was the granddaughter of a White Russian princess. She became the first internationally famous professional psychic and she was also a brilliant occult con artist who drew such figures as G. B. Shaw and William Butler Yeats into her bizarre web. A fervent flower child, she journeyed to the East in search of enlightenment almost 100 years before the hippie hegira of the 1960s.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Fascinating book, Mar 24 2006
By Krijes Sedam "All Is One" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (Paperback)
Very good and interesting book. A lot of new information about Helena's life, and mostly realistic view of the author, in my opinion.It is nice to hear all the facts from neutral side, rather then only reading those who were pro or against her.
There should be a movie about Helena, and it would be quite a drama and exciting, and long too.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The best biography available on HPB, Feb 8 2010
By Costa Enzo Fernando "sinaruspica" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (Paperback)
I always thought about H.P.B. as a talented mystifyer: her fixed, exoftalmic gaze from photographs, her hypomaniac behaviour, the episodes of auditory and visual hallucinations, and the obvious similarity of the portraits of her "Masters" with the Renaissence iconography of the Christ, all pointed to this conclusión.Somewhat hagiographic works as "H.P.B., the extraordinary life and influence of Helena Blavatsky" (by Sylvia Cranston, Ed. Tarcher-Putnam, 1993), or "Helena Petrovna Blavatsky e la Societá Teosofica" (by Paola Giovetti,Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 1991) helped me scarcely to the intímate knowledge of this character.
Only after reading this superbly documented and written biography, the personality of HPB was properly drawn, with all its lights and shadows, absolutely humanized. As the author, Marion Mead says in the preface of the book: "When I embarked on this biography, I believed it necessary to decide whether she was truly a great person or not, one that I liked or did not. Before my research had progressed very far, it became clear that such an approach was doomed to fail. Like most people, H.P.B., as she was called, was a mixture of greatness and weakness. Only in that light is an appraisal possible. Regrettably, elements of her character are difficult to admire. But after careful study we can understand why she behaved as she did and can even sympathize without condoning her actions. At the same time, she possessed a genuine daring and a vastness of body and soul that compels admiration. In every way, she was an inmense person. She weighed more than other people, ate more, smoked more, swore more, and visualized heaven and earth in terms that dwarfed any previous conception..."
In my opinion this biography is the best available work on the curious existence of Madame Blavatsky and his companion the "colonel" Henry Olcott. Absolutely essential on the subject.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Madam Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, Feb 14 2008
By Nancy Diandra Nelson "FanceeNancy" - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a very well written book although I was quite surprised by the story of Madam Blavatsky. A little dissapointed at the least. As I have looked up to Madam Blavatsky and have heard nothing but good stories about her until I read this book.
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