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Stella Fregelius

A Tale of Three Destinies

by H. Rider Haggard

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1904
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  1. Dedication and Note

    3:20

  2. Morris, Mary and the Aerophone

    16:28

  3. The Colonel And Some Reflections

    37:04

  4. "Poor Porson"

    38:21

  5. Mary Preaches and the Colonel Prevails

    25:04

  6. A Proposal and a Promise

    31:49

  7. The Good Old Days

    21:36

  8. Beaulieu

    25:54

  9. The Sunk Rocks and the Singer

    42:30

  10. Mr Fregelius

    27:26

  11. Dawn and the Land

    33:15

  12. A Morning Service

    34:26

  13. Mr Layard's Wooing

    39:14

  14. Two Questions, and the Answer

    47:54

  15. The Return of the Colonel

    36:22

  16. Three Interviews

    43:33

  17. A Marriage and After

    31:39

  18. The Return of Mary

    26:19

  19. Two Explanations

    35:35

  20. Morris, the Married Man

    37:29

  21. Stella's Diary

    39:38

  22. The End of Stella's Diary

    40:30

  23. The Evil Gate

    33:38

  24. Stella Comes

    28:41

  25. Dreams and the Sleep

    33:02

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Morris Monk looks from a coastal cliff toward the stars and imagines how far a signal might travel. Trained as an electrical engineer, he is struggling to perfect paired wireless telephones that he calls aerophones. An early success lets him hear his cousin Mary Porson across several miles, but repeating the experiment proves difficult. Their conversations link his technical problem with changes in feeling and understanding between two people.

Published in 1904, H. Rider Haggard's novel combines an inventor's ambitions with romantic conflict and spiritual speculation. In a later scene, Stella tries to ease a misunderstanding with Morris over dinner. She describes the Danish grandmother from whom she recorded a Norse saga and its traditional songs, and he asks her to sing. These exchanges give the story an interest in communication through science, music and personal sympathy. Readers drawn to fiction about belief and emotional attachment can follow the tension between practical invention and hopes that reach beyond it.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire.

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First published
1904
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
195
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
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