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100 1 _aLocke, William John,
_d1863-1930
245 1 4 _aThe golden journey of Mr. Paradyne
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-06
508 _aTom Trussel, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aThe golden journey of Mr. Paradyne by William John Locke is a literary novella written in the early 20th century. It explores a brilliant but spiritually numb London barrister who slips out of suburban respectability and, under the spell of a haunting flageolet melody, stumbles into a vagrant life on the French roads. The likely topic is a transformation from duty-bound convention to an awakened pursuit of beauty, freedom, and desire. Cosmo Paradyne, K.C., wakes before dawn in a hawker’s caravan near Chartres with no clear memory of how he got there, a silver flageolet in his pocket, and months missing from his life. Tracing fragments, he recalls the mysterious young street musician whose unearthly tune lured him from Ealing, a lost stretch of wandering in France, and the practical proofs that he has been living as a travelling pedlar. In Chartres he tastes fierce health, the rapture of the cathedral’s light, and a sudden, sensual awareness that exposes the aridity of his marriage to Martha, who, in a curt telegram, dismisses his tale and has already concealed his absence as a “breakdown.” Torn between duty and the new life, he plays the tune through, recovers the moment he won the flageolet as a minstrel’s prize, and remembers an invitation to journey on through France, Italy, and Sicily. At moonrise and into dawn he harnesses his horse, turns south, and chooses the golden road—renouncing forever the sterile security he leaves behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1924
653 _aVoyages and travels -- Fiction
653 _aRunaway husbands -- Fiction
653 _aMiddle-aged men -- Fiction
653 _aLawyers -- Fiction
700 1 _aFoster, Marcia Lane,
_d1897-1983
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/goldenjourneyofm00lock/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78127
999 _c118847
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