Falkner, J. Meade
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Falkner, J. Meade ( John Meade Falkner) (1858–1923), is remembered for his three novels:
The Lost Stradivarius (1895), a tale of the supernatural set largely in Oxford and Naples;
Moonfleet (1898), a romance involving smuggling; and
The Nebuly Coat (1903), an antiquarian romance dealing with a church threatened by collapse, in which Falkner was able to display his love and knowledge of ecclesiastical history and architecture, heraldry, etc. He also published a volume of
Poems (
c.1933); three of his poems appear in
Larkin's The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973).
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