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Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
Charles Jessold Considered as a Murderer
Author: Wesley Stace
England, 1923. A gentleman critic named Leslie Shepherd tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold. On the eve of his revolutionary new opera’s premiere, Jessold murders his wife and her lover, and then commits suicide in a scenario that strangely echoes the plot of his opera -- which Shepherd has helped to write. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780224089883
ISBN-10: 0224089889
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Interesting story intertwined with the evolution of British classical music in the first half of the twentieth century. It never quite grabbed me the way Stace's novel By George did. Apparently you can listen online to music written to replicate the works of the fictitious composer at the center of the novel.


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