Description
This is a Boundary Bay Classics edition of the classic novel The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner. Narrated through the letters and reminiscences of Sophia Maltravers, the novel tells how her brother John, an Oxford undergraduate with a passion for music, becomes fatally drawn to an old violin and the malevolent legacy of its former owner, the notorious Adrian Temple. As uncanny occurrences multiply around the instrument's haunting music, the story builds a slow, atmospheric dread around questions of possession, inheritance, and the past's hold over the present. First published in 1895, it remains one of the finest Victorian ghost stories and the first novel of an author better known for Moonfleet.
