Desolate splendour (Registro nro. 118152)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sadleir, Michael, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888-1957 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Desolate splendour |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-12-09 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Desolate Splendour" by Michael Sadleir is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Morvane, a grand but troubled English estate dominated by a sinister tower, and follows the clashing ambitions of the Plethern family—hedonistic Charles, calculating James, and their iron-willed mother Rowena—against the backdrop of a decaying neighbouring valley owned by the aloof Earl of Rockarvon. The sudden arrival of Viola Marvell, a poised Canadian orphan placed in Charles’s care, becomes a catalyst for testing desire, duty, and the family’s hunger for power and property.<br/><br/>The opening of this novel evokes Morvane’s faded approach and its eerie campanile, “The Devil’s Candle,” with a Jacobite legend that foreshadows the family’s pride and doom. It sketches the rise of “King” Plethern, whose marriage to the frigidly controlling Rowena ends in humiliation and the birth of twins: Charles the charming rover and James the hard, ambitious strategist. After King Plethern’s death, Charles inherits; James turns to politics and the city; and Charles secretly expands Morvane while resenting the blighted Rockarvon valley he longs to possess. A backstory links Charles to Viola through her father Marvell, a brilliant Cambridge outsider who once saved Charles’s life and later died in Canada, prompting Charles to summon Viola to England. Viola’s arrival introduces a cool, self-possessed beauty who instantly unsettles old routines: she meets Lady Grieve’s kindness, Rowena’s veiled probing, and Corinne’s eager friendship. In a tense library interview, Viola reveals that her mother did not die but ran away, and when Charles’s sympathy turns too intimate she firmly reasserts herself; later, Corinne confides that Charles is a notorious “rip,” while offering Viola alliance and a way into London society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Toronto: MacMillan, 1923 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Orphans -- Fiction |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | Young women -- Fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | Guardian and ward -- Fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | Families -- Fiction |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/desolatesplendou00sadl/page/n5">https://archive.org/details/desolatesplendou00sadl/page/n5</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77432">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77432</a> |
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