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The Secret of Dr. Honigberger

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Translator
  
William Ames Coates

Language
  
Publication date
  
1940

Author
  
Country
  
Romania

Publisher
  
Socec

Originally published
  
1940

Published in english
  
1970

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Original title
  
Secretul doctorului Honigberger

Mircea Eliade books
  
Șarpele, Miss Christina, Isabel și apele diavolului, În curte la Dionis, With the Gypsy Girls

The Secret of Dr. Honigberger (Romanian: Secretul doctorului Honigberger) is a 1940 novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It centres on the search for a 19th-century physician named Johann Martin Honigberger, who disappeared in India while searching for the invisible kingdom Shambhala, as well as his early 20th-century biographer who has also disappeared.

Honigberger was a real person, a physician and ethnographer who travelled in Asia in the 19th century. The novella was first published in Romania in 1940 together with Eliade's novella Nights at Serampore, which also revolves around India and has similar supernatural elements. The two novellas were translated into English by William Ames Coates and published in 1970 as Two Tales of the Occult, and in 1986 as Two Strange Tales. A translation by Ana Cartianu was published in 1992 under the title Doctor Honigberger's Secret, as part of the Eliade omnibus volume Mystic Stories.

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