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"The Tallants of Barton, Volume 1" by Joseph Hatton
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SYNOPSIS
"The Tallants of Barton, Volume 1" by Joseph Hatton is a novel set in the mid-19th century in the town of Barton, England. The story follows the lives of the Tallant family, a wealthy and influential family in the town, and their interactions with other prominent families. The cast includes banking titan and family patriarch Christopher Tallant; his playboy son, Richard Tallant; Thomas Dibble, an unwitting pawn; and the duplicitous financier, Shuffleton Gibbs.
The novel explores themes of love, betrayal, ambition, and social status.
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THE FIRST PAGE
CHAPTER I.
IN THE SHADOW OF BERNE HILLS.
Barton Hall is a conspicuous feature of the landscape in the smiling Vale of Avonworth, and it stands beneath the shadow of Berne Hills. Built of white stone, and in the Italian style of architecture, it has the appearance of a modern mansion removed from Kensington Palace Gardens, and planted amongst the rare scenery of this beautiful western district of the Midlands.
All that wealth and taste can do to make the house generally worthy of the site has been lavished upon it, inside and out. It is furnished with everything that is costly and comfortable, with ornaments and articles of vertu from all parts of the earth.
A long gravelly drive leads up to the principal entrance, which is cut off from the park with iron fencing and chains. On the other side of the house there are conservatories of flowers and extensive gardens. Behind, at a short distance, there is stabling for many horses, shut out from view by shrubs and young trees.
In front of the house a smooth tract of mossy lawn ends in a sunk fence; and beyond lies the park, skirted by green fields, which mount up the Berne Hills and lose themselves in the foliage of oaks, and elms, and larches.
Here and there on the lawn are clumps of young aspiring cedars, silver birch trees, ash plants, and sycamores, hemmed round about with rims of white creepers and luxuriant mosses. In “Gems of the Poets,” pictorially adorned by Laydon, you will find a fanciful illustration of Gray’s well-known lines:
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark, unfathom’d caves of ocean bear.”
In the foreground there is a leafy vignette of exotic and other plants and trees sprouting up from an island-rock. Turn the water into grass, and replace the tall cocoa-nut trees with a couple of silver birches, and you have one of the Barton Hall lawn groups; for the place is so completely “shut out from the rude world” and the easterly and northern winds, that the climate is more like southern France than western England, and vegetation flourishes there nearly all the year round.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph Hatton was a British journalist, novelist, and playwright born in 1841 in Liverpool, England. After working as a journalist in Liverpool, he moved to London and became the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine. He wrote numerous novels and plays, including "By Order of the Czar" and "The Princess Mazaroff", which were both successful. Hatton was also a prolific travel writer, with his books on the United States and the Mediterranean being particularly popular. He was known for his vivid descriptions of places and characters, and for his ability to weave together complex plotlines. Joseph Hatton passed away in 1907, leaving behind a legacy of entertaining and insightful literature.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:12 - Chapter I.
11:18 - Chapter II.
19:04 - Chapter III.
31:56 - Chapter IV.
43:26 - Chapter V.
54:35 - Chapter VI.
1:09:30 - Chapter VII.
1:15:16 - Chapter VIII.
1:25:20 - Chapter IX.
1:33:57 - Chapter X.
1:46:00 - Chapter XI.
1:57:59 - Chapter XII.
2:07:48 - Chapter XIII.
2:19:30 - Chapter XIV.
2:32:24 - Chapter XV.
2:40:46 - Chapter XVI.
2:50:37 - Chapter XVII.
2:57:45 - Chapter XVIII.
3:08:03 - Chapter XIX.
3:20:57 - Chapter XX.
3:31:56 - Chapter XXI.
3:41:27 - Chapter XXII.
3:55:17 - Chapter XXIII.
4:10:55 - Chapter XXIV.
4:23:48 - Outro |