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"Desolate Splendour" by Michael Sadleir is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Morvane, a grand but troubled English estate dominated by a sinister tower, and follows the clashing ambitions of the Plethern family—hedonistic Charles, calculating James, and their iron-willed mother Rowena—against the backdrop of a decaying neighbouring valley owned by the aloof Earl of Rockarvon. The sudden arrival of Viola Marvell, a poised Canadian orphan placed in Charles’s care, becomes a catalyst for testing desire, duty, and the family’s hunger for power and property.
The opening of this novel evokes Morvane’s faded approach and its eerie campanile, “The Devil’s Candle,” with a Jacobite legend that foreshadows the family’s pride and doom. It sketches the rise of “King” Plethern, whose marriage to the frigidly controlling Rowena ends in humiliation and the birth of twins: Charles the charming rover and James the hard, ambitious strategist. After King Plethern’s death, Charles i
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