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Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is the son of a sailor and wishes to go to sea himself.
Rodney Stone is a boy who grows up to become a boxer and a sailor in the early nineteenth century. He witnesses the rise and fall of his uncle, a champion fighter, and the triumph of Nelson at Trafalgar.
Rodney Stone and his friend Jim, two young lads from the country, find themselves drawn into the racy. colourful but dangerous world of boxing and gambling, and become involved in a series of exciting adventures set in an England where the Prince Regent is all but King and Lord Nelson all but God.
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- Preface
- P. 1Chapteri. Friar’s Oak.
- P.18Chapter II. The Walker of Cliffe Royal.
- P.33Chapter III. The Play-Actress of Ansteycross.
- P.50Chapter IV. The Peace of Amiens.
- P.65Chapter v. Buck Tregellis.
- P.86Chapter VI. on The Threshold.
Amongstthe books to which I amindebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phasesof life and character in England at the beginning of the century,I would particularly mention Ashton’s “Dawn of theNineteenth Century;” Gronow’s“Reminiscences;” Fitzgerald’s “Life andTimes of George IV.;” Jesse’s “Life ofBrummell;” “Boxiana;”“Pugilistica;” ...
Onthis, the first of January ofthe year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midwayterm, and many of us who shared its youth have already warningswhich tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzledheads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days thatwe have known; but we find that when it is with our children thatwe talk i...
Somuch for ChampionHarrison! Now, I wish to say something more about Boy Jim,not only because he was the comrade of my youth, but because youwill find as you go on that this book is his story rather thanmine, and that there came a time when his name and his fame werein the mouths of all England. You will bear with me,therefore, while I tell you of ...
I havetold you something aboutFriar’s Oak, and about the life that we led there. Now that my memory goes back to the old place it would gladlylinger, for every thread which I draw from the skein of the pastbrings out half a dozen others that were entangled with it. I was in two minds when I began whether I had enough in me tomake a book of, and now...
Manya woman’s knee was onthe ground, and many a woman’s soul spent itself in joy andthankfulness when the news came with the fall of the leaf in 1801that the preliminaries of peace had been settled. AllEngland waved her gladness by day and twinkled it by night. Even in little Friar’s Oak we had our flags flying bravely,and a candle in every window,...
Nowthat I was in my seventeenthyear, and had already some need for a razor, I had begun to wearyof the narrow life of the village, and to long to see somethingof the great world beyond. The craving was all the strongerbecause I durst not speak openly about it, for the least hint ofit brought the tears into my mother’s eyes. But nowthere was the les...
Myfather sent me to bed early thatnight, though I was very eager to stay up, for every word whichthis man said held my attention. His face, his manner, thelarge waves and sweeps of his white hands, his easy air ofsuperiority, his fantastic fashion of talk, all filled me withinterest and wonder. But, as I afterwards learned, theirconversation was to...
A four-part BBC Radio adaptation by Constance Cox of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic 1896 Gothic Mystery/Boxing novel. Rodney Stone is the son of a sailor who wants to go to sea himself. His friend Jim Harrison believes himself to be the son of a blacksmith who was a famous former fighter, and his "son" also wants to fight.
Rodney Stone and his best friend, Jim Harrison (the relative of a blacksmith and former boxer) have always been drawn to dark and dangerous places.
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