Stradivarius

Author : Donald Ladew
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456603019
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stradivarius written by Donald Ladew and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational story of love and the transforming power of music, Stradivarius is a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people. On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951, a wounded American soldier finds a rare violin in the wall of a farmhouse where he has taken refuge. This is the beautifully told story of how a centuries old Stradivarius came to be in that unlikely place and how it changed the life of all those who possessed it. For this great instrument carries a kind of magic and all who use it are wrapped in its spell. This is also the story of two families from different cultures and different parts of the world: one rural, Baptist, Southern; the other, sophisticated, European, Jewish. The link between them is an abiding love of great music, possession of the violin, and the boy genius from the mountains of West Virginia, Ailey Barkwood. The remarkable route by which the violin reaches Ailey's talented hands, the course of love between two special but very different young people, and how great music, real genius and moral choices can alter destiny are the ingredients that make Donald Ladew's tale a novel that can be read, reread and remembered.

Author : John Meade Falkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Stradivarius written by John Meade Falkner and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Meade Falkner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447484045
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Stradivarius written by J. Meade Falkner and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains John Meade Falkner's 1895 novella, "The Lost Stradivarius". When a young wealthy man discovers a violin in a secret compartment of a college dorm, he becomes strangely reclusive and obsessed with a mysterious piece of music, roaming throughout England and Italy haunted by the ghost of the violin's previous owner. John Meade Falkner (1858–1932) was an English novelist and poet best known for his 1898 novel, “Moonfleet”. As well as being an accomplished writer, Falkner was also a successful businessman, becoming chairman of the weapons manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth in the First World War.

Author : John Meade Falkner
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Stradivarius written by John Meade Falkner and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Dr. Sarsdell had not been unmindful of his promise to look after my brother, and had secured him an excellent first-floor sitting-room, with a bedroom adjoining, having an aspect towards New College Lane. I shall pass over the first two years of my brother's residence at Oxford, because they have nothing to do with the present story. They were spent, no doubt, in the ordinary routine of work and recreation common in Oxford at that period. From his earliest boyhood he had been passionately devoted to music, and had attained a considerable proficiency on the violin. In the autumn term of 1841 he made the acquaintance of Mr. William Gaskell, a very talented student at New College, and also a more than tolerable musician. The practice of music was then very much less common at Oxford than it has since become, and there were none of those societies existing which now do so much to promote its study among undergraduates. It was therefore a cause of much gratification to the two young men, and it afterwards became a strong bond of friendship, to discover that one was as devoted to the pianoforte as was the other to the violin. Mr. Gaskell, though in easy circumstances, had not a pianoforte in his rooms, and was pleased to use a fine instrument by D'Almaine that John had that term received as a birthday present from his guardian....

Author : Kristina Simms
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452001332
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stradivarius in the Basement written by Kristina Simms and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stradivarius in the Basement is a collection of essays, some humorous, some serious, based on the author's 72 years of observing - and participating in - life on this wonderful but essentially puzzling planet.

Author : François Joseph FETIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notice of A. Stradivari; ... known by the name of Stradivarius ... Translated by J. Bishop written by François Joseph FETIS and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Village Stradivarius written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Village Stradivarius" by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Village Stradivarius written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Meade Falkner
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528789067
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Novels of J. Meade Falkner - Moonfleet, The Lost Stradivarius and The Nebuly Coat written by J. Meade Falkner and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains the complete novels of J. Meade Falkner including “Moonfleet”, “The Lost Stradivarius”, and “The Nebuly Coat”. These fantastic novels will appeal to all fiction lovers and constitute must-reads for fans and collectors of Falkner's wonderful work. “Moonfleet” - The titillating tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th century England. "The Lost Stradivarius" - When a young wealthy man discovers a violin in a secret compartment of a college dorm, he becomes strangely reclusive and obsessed with a mysterious piece of music, roaming throughout England and Italy haunted by the ghost of the violin's previous owner. “The Nebuly Coat” - A suspense novel that tells the story of Edward Westray, a young architect overseeing the restoration of Cullerne Minister. He finds himself caught up in Cullerne life, and hears rumours about a mystery surrounding the claim to the title of Lord Blandamer. John Meade Falkner (1858–1932) was an English novelist and poet best known for his 1898 novel, “Moonfleet”. As well as being an accomplished writer, Falkner was also a successful businessman, becoming chairman of the weapons manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth in the First World War.

Author : Hugh Conway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.B8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The secret of the Stradivarius. Fleurette. A cabinet secret. The bandsman's story. The Blatchford bequest. My first client written by Hugh Conway and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: