ISBN: 9783842499621

Your father, John Maltravers, was born in 1820 at Worth, and succeeded his father and mine, who died when we were still young children. John was sent to Eton in due course, and in 1839, w… More...

Your father, John Maltravers, was born in 1820 at Worth, and succeeded his father and mine, who died when we were still young children. John was sent to Eton in due course, and in 1839, when he was nineteen years of age, it was determined that he should go to Oxford. It was intended at first to enter him at Christ Church; but Dr. Sarsdell, who visited us at Worth in the summer of 1839, persuaded Mr. Thoresby, our guardian, to send him instead to Magdalen Hall. Dr. Sarsdell was himself Principal of that institution, and represented that John, who then exhibited some symptoms of delicacy, would meet with more personal attention under his care than he could hope to do in so large a college as Christ Church. Mr. Thoresby, ever solicitous for his ward's welfare, readily waived other considerations in favour of an arrangement which he considered conducive to John's health, and he was accordingly matriculated at Magdalen Hall in the autumn of 1839. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, tredition Digital >16<

ISBN: 9783842499621

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 fin… More...

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 its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story involves family love, lordly depravity, and the tragedy of obsession, all conveyed in a high serious tone not uncommon in late Victorian literature. Preceding M.R. James's ghost stories by several years, it has been called the novel James might have written, had he written novels. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, tredition Digital >16<

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The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner is a gripping tale of a young well-to-do man, John Maltravers, finding the Lost Stradivarius hidden while away at Oxford. The finding would not… More...

The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner is a gripping tale of a young well-to-do man, John Maltravers, finding the Lost Stradivarius hidden while away at Oxford. The finding would not have been so bad, but he chose to keep and play it, and then suffered the associated evil. Digital Content>E-books>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, tredition Digital >16<

ISBN: 9783842499621

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