The Light of Scarthey (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical Romance of Napoleonic WarsBy Egerton Castle
Length18h 8m
About this audiobook
The Light of Scarthey is a late-Victorian romance of isolation, loyalty, and moral illumination, set amid the windswept austerity of a coastal stronghold whose beacon becomes both literal guide and symbolic centre. Castle blends Gothic atmosphere with the manners of historical fiction: storm, secrecy, inheritance, and passionate restraint are shaped in a prose style at once decorative and disciplined. The novel belongs to the fin-de-siècle revival of romance, looking back to chivalric feeling while registering modern anxieties about duty and desire. Egerton Castle, an Anglo-Irish writer, critic, and celebrated authority on fencing, was drawn throughout his career to codes of honour, aristocratic memory, and the dramatic possibilities of the past. His antiquarian interests and cosmopolitan education helped form a fiction attentive to gesture, costume, setting, and moral ceremony. These preoccupations are evident here, where character is tested less by spectacle than by fidelity, renunciation, and the difficult claims of love. Readers who value atmospheric historical romance, finely wrought emotional tension, and fiction shaped by old-world ideals will find The Light of Scarthey rewarding. It is especially recommended to admirers of Victorian romance who appreciate symbolic landscapes and disciplined sentiment.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length18 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Preface to the American Edition.
3Part I. Sir Adrian Landale, Light-keeper of Scarthey
4Chapter I. The Peel of Scarthey
5Chapter II. The Light-keeper
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6Chapter III. Day Dreams: A Philosopher's Fate
7Chapter IV. Day Dreams: A Fair Emissary
8Chapter V. The Awakening
9Chapter VI. The Wheel of Time
10Chapter VII. Forebodings of Gladness
11Chapter VIII. The Path of Wasted Years
12Chapter IX. A Genealogical Epistle
13Part II. "Murthering Moll the Second"
14Chapter X. The Threshold of Womanhood
15Chapter XI. A Masterful Old Maid
16Chapter XII. A Record and a Presentment.
17Chapter XIII. The Distant Light
18Chapter XIV. The Tower of Liverpool: Master and Man
19Chapter XV. Under the Light
20Chapter XVI. The Recluse and the Squire
21Part III. "Captain Jack," The Gold Smuggler
22Chapter XVII. The Gold Smuggler and the Philosopher
23Chapter XVIII. "Love Gilds the Scene and Woman Guides the Plot"
24Chapter XIX. A Junior's Opinion
25Chapter XX. Two Months Later: The Quick and the Dead
26Chapter XXI. The Dawn of an Eventful Day
27Chapter XXII. The Day: Morning
28Chapter XXIII. The Day: Noon
29Chapter XXIV. The Night
30Chapter XXV. The Fight for the Open
31Chapter XXVI. The Three Colours
32Chapter XXVII. The Light Again—The Lady and the Cargo
33Chapter XXVIII. The End of the Thread
34Chapter XXIX. The Light Goes Out
35Chapter XXX. Husband and Wife
36Chapter XXXI. In Lancaster Castle
37Chapter XXXII. The One He Loved and the One Who Loved Him
38Chapter XXXIII. Launched on the Great Wave
39Chapter XXXIV. The Gibbet on the Sands
40Chapter XXXV. The Light Rekindled
41Memorable Quotes
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