The Last Séance: A Short Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Double Sin and Other Stories.
Raoul Daubreuil insists his fiancée give up her activities as a talented and successful medium when they marry. However, he agrees to attend what is to be her last séance—with Madame Exe. But even Raoul can't foresee the tragedy ahead.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A strong - but very sad - ending of Wiesels trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day). A Holocaust-survivor reflects about his life as he is in the hospital trying to recover from a car-accident that nearly killed him. Three persons try to help him - a doctor, his fiance/lover/friend and a hungarian painter. And we get glimpses of his past experiences/memories/dreams. He reflects about life and death, the distant silent God, his inability to love, his desire to die, the emptiness of life - his soul died in the nazi-camps - is it at all possible for him to return to life and to love again? The question is a hard one, and by the end of the book there is mostly despair - the tears in the end...a lament? A turning point?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Could I have found meaning in my life as a survivor of the Holocaust? More and more I have to wonder. "The Accident" makes me wonder what I would need to live again after such horrors. Very moving.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I Didn't like his writing style to begin with in Night, yet it still was a good book. Then he tries fiction and really takes the cake with failure. I just didn't think Weisel really knew what to write when he put this book together. He tries to repeat lines to make it seem enforcing, but only comes off trying to make a another book with tons of filler. I know I use to write like him in 6th grade. He's not an author in my view, but a raconteur of past experiences. That is why this book fails in its attempt at provoking any kind of realism or manifest emotions.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The worst book in the trilogy. No need to rehash how much I disliked it, or its predecessor.He could have done better. However I plan to re-read it, eventually.
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The Last Séance - Agatha Christie
Contents
The Last Séance
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
THE LAST SÉANCE
Raoul Daubreuil crossed the Seine humming a little tune to himself. He was a good-looking young Frenchman of about thirty-two, with a fresh-coloured face and a little black moustache. By profession he was an engineer. In due course he reached the Cardonet and turned in at the door of No. 17. The concierge looked out from her lair and gave him a grudging Good morning,
to which he replied cheerfully. Then he mounted the stairs to the apartment on the third floor. As he stood there waiting for his ring at the bell to be answered he hummed once more his little tune. Raoul Daubreuil was feeling particularly cheerful this morning. The door was opened by an elderly Frenchwoman whose wrinkled face broke into smiles when she saw who the visitor was.
Good morning, Monsieur.
Good morning, Elise,
said Raoul.
He passed into the vestibule, pulling off his gloves as he did so.
Madame expects me, does she not?
he asked over his shoulder.
Ah, yes, indeed, Monsieur.
Elise shut the front door and turned towards him.
"If Monsieur will pass into the little salon Madame will be with him in a few minutes. At the moment she reposes herself."
Raoul looked up sharply.
Is she not well?
Well!
Elise gave a snort. She passed in front