Though One Rose From the Dead

By William Dean Howells

Can a marriage become so close that one mind begins to enter another? Wanhope's first-person account examines the unusual bond between painter Rupert Alderling and his wife, whose emotional and intellectual intimacy has led them towards experiments in thought-transference and apparent manifestations. Their shared life is grounded in recognisable domestic routines, yet it continually presses against the uncertain border between psychological experience and supernatural possibility. An isolated home on a coastal cove provides the setting for a relationship shaped by a profound disagreement. Marion longs for immortality and the promise of continued companionship; her husband remains agnostic, demanding evidence where she seeks faith. As he repeatedly paints her as a Madonna, art, devotion and dependence become inseparable from their occult investigations. The story's literary realism gives each strange occurrence a human context, leaving belief and scepticism in unresolved tension. Framed as a recollection, this short work approaches marriage and grief through the testimony of an observer trying to understand what he has witnessed. Its power lies in the questions it refuses to settle: whether intense attachment can cross the limits of ordinary consciousness, whether apparent proof can survive doubt, and whether loss alters the boundary between perception and reality. Domestic life, philosophical argument and supernatural suggestion converge in a psychologically searching narrative about the limits of evidence. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9377787661
• ISBN13: 9789377787660
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"