The Shadow of the Gloomy East

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The Shadow of the Gloomy East (1925)
by Ferdinand Ossendowski, translated by Francis Bauer Czarnomski

Introduction

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Ferdinand Ossendowski2579167The Shadow of the Gloomy East1925Francis Bauer Czarnomski

THE SHADOW OF
THE GLOOMY EAST

BY

FERDINAND OSSENDOWSKI

Author of
"Beasts, Men and Gods," "Man and Mystery in Asia," etc.

TRANSLATED BY

F. B. CZARNOMSKI

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 Fifth Avenue

Copyright, 1925
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

First published in 1925

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

page
	Introduction	v
chapter
I.	The Masks	1
II.	The Face Laid Bare	11
III.	The Shadows of the Village	19
IV.	The Treasure Hunters	44
V.	The Poisoners	47
VI.	Heatenism	51
VII.	Witchcraft	55
VIII.	The Echo of the Dim Past	59
IX.	The Bold Industry	66
X.	The Lords of the Sea	69
XI.	In the Dusk of the Palaces	74
XII.	Black Shadows	83
XIII.	Phantoms of the Apocalypse	90
XIV.	Ascetics versus Antichrist	103
XV.	Factories of Immorality	106
XVI.	Woman and the Child	116
XVII.	Death of the Romanovs and the Mystical Movement	123
XVIII.	Black Ravens	130
XIX.	Old Gods in Christian Worship	136
XX.	The Simplest of All Gods	144
XXI.	The Devil's Feast	148
XXII.	Witte, Stolypin, and Goremykin	160
XXIII.	The Last of the Mohicans	178
XXIV.	Fetishism of the Word	187
XXV.	Chaos	191
	Conclusion	195
	Index	199

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1955, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 68 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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