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
22Chapter XVII. The Gold Smuggler and the Philosopher
2Preface to the American Edition.
23Chapter XVIII. "Love Gilds the Scene and Woman Guides the Plot"
3Part I. Sir Adrian Landale, Light-keeper of Scarthey
24Chapter XIX. A Junior's Opinion
4Chapter I. The Peel of Scarthey
25Chapter XX. Two Months Later: The Quick and the Dead
5Chapter II. The Light-keeper
26Chapter XXI. The Dawn of an Eventful Day
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6Chapter III. Day Dreams: A Philosopher's Fate
27Chapter XXII. The Day: Morning
7Chapter IV. Day Dreams: A Fair Emissary
28Chapter XXIII. The Day: Noon
8Chapter V. The Awakening
29Chapter XXIV. The Night
9Chapter VI. The Wheel of Time
30Chapter XXV. The Fight for the Open
10Chapter VII. Forebodings of Gladness
31Chapter XXVI. The Three Colours
11Chapter VIII. The Path of Wasted Years
32Chapter XXVII. The Light Again—The Lady and the Cargo
12Chapter IX. A Genealogical Epistle
33Chapter XXVIII. The End of the Thread
13Part II. "Murthering Moll the Second"
34Chapter XXIX. The Light Goes Out
14Chapter X. The Threshold of Womanhood
35Chapter XXX. Husband and Wife
15Chapter XI. A Masterful Old Maid
36Chapter XXXI. In Lancaster Castle
16Chapter XII. A Record and a Presentment.
37Chapter XXXII. The One He Loved and the One Who Loved Him
17Chapter XIII. The Distant Light
38Chapter XXXIII. Launched on the Great Wave
18Chapter XIV. The Tower of Liverpool: Master and Man
39Chapter XXXIV. The Gibbet on the Sands
19Chapter XV. Under the Light
40Chapter XXXV. The Light Rekindled
20Chapter XVI. The Recluse and the Squire
41Memorable Quotes
21Part III. "Captain Jack," The Gold Smuggler
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