An original idea, that the modern concept of telepathy illuminates the reading experience, is brought forward by the author, especially with works by Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, G. D. Brown, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shakespeare, and Raymond Chandler. The experience of reading literature involves a great deal of "impression received at a distance without the normal operation of the recognized sense organs" (from the author's quote of Frederic Myers at a Psychical Research meeting in 1882). What is happening when we read literature? It is uncanny how the author makes their point. New/ Like new. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge MA. 1991. Paper. $45.00