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Gerontius
About this book
Nearing the end of his career, Sir Edward Elgar impulsively decides to travel by ship to Brazil, where he encounters a woman from his past. Set in 1923 and based on true events,
Gernontius is a modern classic, and takes the great composer out of his depths in this beautiful, episodic, mysterious novel set in 1923.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Colin Matthews
- Author’s Note
- A train was travelling northwards …
- He is to climb at last.
- The jerk woke the sleeper …
- It was when, in response to the bugle …
- It is the moment between dusk and dark …
- The next morning …
- Hempson and Pyce …
- Edward, exploring …
- The gale blew …
- Promptly at eleven …
- That night the wind dropped …
- Later that night …
- As he had gone about his rounds …
- The night as most of the passengers …
- The unfamiliarity of shipboard days …
- Edward also spent time in his cabin …
- So of course he sat in vain …
- In token of the latitude …
- The shipboard ritual …
- Next morning …
- Very early next day …
- From then on …
- Like many of the others …
- The pretty settlement of Santarem …
- Frau von Pussels had be posting a notice …
- She laid down her pen …
- A spotless cream panama hat …
- But within half an hour …
- Miles Moss arrived punctually …
- And an afternoon sitting on deck …
- He crossed the Atlantic in full retreat …
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- By the same author
- Copyright
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