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A narrator convalescing from a persistent illness rents a remote house and uncovers letters and diary fragments that revive the intertwined histories of Margaret Capel and Gabriel Stanton. The story alternates between present solitude, archival reconstruction, and the narrator’s fevered reflections, using epistolary evidence, local testimony, and a village apothecary’s observations to assemble a partial account. Themes of memory, illness, authorship, and the tension between fact and imagination are explored as the narrator’s curiosity becomes obsession, leaving certain events ambiguous and inviting readers to judge how much of the recovered narrative is documentary truth and how much is shaped by perception.

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Title: Twilight

Author: Julia Frankau

Release date: August 6, 2017 [eBook #55276]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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TWILIGHT
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
  • PIGS IN CLOVER
  • BACCARAT
  • THE SPHINX’S LAWYER
  • THE HEART OF A CHILD
  • AN INCOMPLEAT ETONIAN
  • LET THE ROOF FALL IN
  • JOSEPH IN JEOPARDY
  • DR. PHILLIPS
  • A BABE OF BOHEMIA
  • CONCERT PITCH
  • FULL SWING
  • NELSON’S LEGACY
  • THE STORY BEHIND THE VERDICT
  • TWILIGHT

TWILIGHT

BY
FRANK DANBY
AUTHOR OF “PIGS IN CLOVER,” “THE HEART OF A CHILD,” “THE STORY BEHIND THE VERDICT,” ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1916
Copyright, 1916, by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

TWILIGHT