John Meade Falkner
Birth date: May 08, 1858
Died: July 22, 1932
John Meade Falkner's Books
bookshelves: classic, kiddlewinks, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder, published-1898, victorian, britain-england, adventure, re-read, radio-4x, autumn-2012, dorset, seven-seas, treasure Recommended for: Laura, Carey and all Radio listeners Read from January 01, 2008 to September 02, 2012 ** spoi...
Had to read this for school when I was thirteen or fourteen and it was the first time I had to force myself through a reading assignment. I just didn't care about any of the characters.
Nice little gothic confection about the doomed John Maltravers. The author doesn't insult us by having the principals stumble about and wonder what is going on for too long; they figure things out pretty quickly but all seem paralyzed to figure out how to help the almost totally listless Maltravers...
Not very creepy story about a haunted violin that is really a vampire (you gotta read it to see what I mean). The musician inevitably wastes away and dies instead of burning the damn thing and everyone about ends up wringing their hands instead of doing something about it. Gothic and Romantic at t...
Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima jactura arte corrigenda est.Falkner's gripping tale of mystery and high adventure in a Dorset smuggling village.blurb - When fifteen-year-old John Trenchard discovers a secret passage into the vault of the powerful Mohune family, his peaceful life in the Dorset vi...
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