Name: The Lost Stradivarius
SKU: 61567613
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Author: John Meade Falkner
ISBN: 9781544710044

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Meade Falkner

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

122

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.7 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781544710044

Synopsis "The Lost Stradivarius"

His conjectures did not, however, either rob him of sleep or even disturb it with dreams, and he woke the next morning with a cooler mind and one less inclined to fantastic imagination. If the strange episode of the previous evening had not entirely vanished from his mind, it seemed at least fully accounted for by the acoustic explanation to which I have alluded above. Although he saw Mr. Gaskell in the course of the morning, he did not think it necessary to mention to him so trivial a circumstance, but made with him an appointment to sup together in his own rooms that evening, and to amuse themselves afterwards by essaying some of the Italian music. It was shortly after nine that night when, supper being finished, Mr. Gaskell seated himself at the piano and John tuned his violin. The evening was closing in; there had been heavy thunder-rain in the afternoon, and the moist air hung now heavy and steaming, while across it there throbbed the distant vibrations of the tenor bell at Christ Church. It was tolling the customary 101 strokes, which are rung every night in term-time as a signal for closing the college gates.

John Meade Falkner

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(Wiltshire, 1858 - Durham, 1932). Estudió en el Hertford College de Oxford, donde se licenció en Historia. Después de graduarse ejerció de maestro en la escuela de Derby, antes de ir a Newcastle para trabajar como tutor de los hijos de Sir Andrew Noble, director del Armstrong Whitworth Co., una de las mayores empresas armamentísticas del mundo a finales de siglo, que se convertiría en estratégica durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Aunque los principales intereses del joven Falkner eran la poesía, la arquitectura y la heráldica, su patrón le ofreció un cargo relevante en la empresa, por el que tuvo que recorrer medio mundo. Tras retirarse de los negocios en 1921, fue lector honorario de Paleografía de la Universidad de Durham y bibliotecario honorario de la catedral. Aparte de las tres novelas que escribió, también publicó varias guías topográficas y una historia de Oxfordshire.

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