# The Lost Stradivarius — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/epigraph.md): The epigraph, drawn from Ecclesiasticus 22:6, sets a somber tone, suggesting that a story told at the wrong time is as discordant as music played during mourning. It foreshadows themes of untimely events and the haunting
- [The Lost Stradivarius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/the-lost-stradivarius.md): John Maltravers, a young man of good family and moderate fortune, matriculates at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he forms a close friendship with William Gaskell. After purchasing an old wicker chair, John begins to hear s
- [Letter from Miss Sophia Maltravers to Her Nephew, Sir Edward Maltravers, Then a Student at Christ Church, Oxford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/letter-from-miss-sophia-maltravers-to-her-nephew-sir-edward-maltravers-then-a-student-at-christ-church-oxford.md): Sophia Maltravers writes to her nephew, Sir Edward Maltravers, on his coming of age, fulfilling her late brother's dying request to communicate certain events from his final years. She has compiled the narrative from her
- [Miss Sophia Maltravers’ Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/miss-sophia-maltravers-story.md): Sophia Maltravers recounts her family's history, including her brother John's obsession with a violin and his subsequent marriage to Constance Temple, which leads to tragedy and John's abandonment of his family.
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/i.md): John Maltravers, a young musician at Magdalen Hall, discovers an old manuscript of suites by Graziani. While playing the 'gagliarda' movement alone, he hears mysterious creaking from a wicker chair, as if someone is sitt

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- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/v.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Summer and the Wedding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Mr. Gaskell’s Note](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_stradivarius_se/chapters/mr-gaskell-s-note.md)

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