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Читай онлайн книгу The Lost Stradivarius, John Meade Falkner . Apart from The Lost Stradivarius, Falkner was the author of two other novels, The Nebuly Coat (1903-also published in Penguin Books) and Moonfleet (1898).
Читай онлайн книгу The Lost Stradivarius, John Meade Falkner на сайте или через приложение ЛитРес Читай. He also wrote a History of Oxfordshire, handbooks to that county and to Berkshire, historical short stories, and some mediævalist verse. Letter from MISS SOPHIA MALTRAVERS to her Nephew, SIR EDWARD MALTRAVERS, then a Student at Christ Church, Oxford.
John Meade Falkner was a remarkable character, as he was not only a scholar and a writer, but a. .
John Meade Falkner was a remarkable character, as he was not only a scholar and a writer, but a captain of industry as well. Born in 1858, the son of a clergyman in Wiltshire, he was educated at Marlborough and Hertford College, Oxford.
The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of the violin's previous owner
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The lost stradivarius. Penguin Books Harmondsworth Middlesex, England 245 Fifth Avenue, New York, . John Meade Falkner was a remarkable character, as he was not only a scholar and a writer, but a captain of industry as well. Born in 1858, the son of a clergyman in Wiltshire, he was educated at Marlborough and Hertford College, Oxford
Title: The Lost Stradivarius. Author: John Meade Falkner. John Meade Falkner was a remarkable character, as he was not only a scholar and a writer, but a captain of industry as well
Title: The Lost Stradivarius. Release Date: November 21, 2004. Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1. On leaving the university, he became tutor to the sons of Sir Andrew Noble, then vice-chairman of the Armstrong-Whitworth Company; and his ability so much impressed his employer that in 1885 he was offered a post in the firm.
Meade Falkner is somewhat of a cult figure amongst a small group of Victorian fiction aficionados. The book isn't bad, per se, but it's absolutely typical for its genre, and somewhat run-of-the-mill. The novella is a classic Victorian ghost story, detailing the obsession and gradual madness of a young student with the titular violin. There's not a lot more to it than that, and fans of the genre will be immediately familiar with this type of ghost story
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The Lost Stradivarius English poet and novelist J. Meade Falkner is best remembered for his novel, Moonfleet. Chilling in the extreme, The Lost Stradivarius is a classic tale of the supernatural. While practicing in his rooms in Oxford, gifted violinist John Maltravers notices a strange phenomenon: whenever a certain air is played, a mysterious presence seems to enter. Unable to rationalize this away, Maltravers becomes increasingly unsettled, until he makes a startling discovery-tucked away in a hidden cupboard in his room is a priceless Stradivarius. English poet and novelist J.
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