Salome and the Head
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a strange girl dancing in a clearing, to the music of a penny whistle played by a crippled boy. Eight years later, on his return from the war, he traces the girl, now a young woman, and her musician, and gets deeply involved in their strange history and their stranger future.
Edith Nesbit's story is strongly coloured by society's constraints on the lives of women, and by love and by death. (Summary by Peter Yearsley.)
Genre(s): Published 1900 onward
Language: English
Keyword(s): love (324), music (130), death (125), melodrama (37), dance (10), macabre (7), ; gothic fiction (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Sunlight | Peter Yearsley |
00:24:24 |
| Play 02 | Limelight | Peter Yearsley |
00:23:03 |
| Play 03 | The house with no address | Peter Yearsley |
00:22:58 |
| Play 04 | The false moustache | Peter Yearsley |
00:16:45 |
| Play 05 | The disaster | Peter Yearsley |
00:26:50 |
| Play 06 | The snare | Peter Yearsley |
00:24:50 |
| Play 07 | The lover | Peter Yearsley |
00:22:31 |
| Play 08 | The husband | Peter Yearsley |
00:24:43 |
| Play 09 | The widow | Peter Yearsley |
00:31:01 |
| Play 10 | Lovers meeting | Peter Yearsley |
00:19:54 |
| Play 11 | The love-night | Peter Yearsley |
00:28:21 |
| Play 12 | Miss Steinhart shops | Peter Yearsley |
00:31:47 |
| Play 13 | The head | Peter Yearsley |
00:27:25 |
| Play 14 | The death night | Peter Yearsley |
00:17:58 |
| Play 15 | The intruder | Peter Yearsley |
00:23:09 |
| Play 16 | The serving man | Peter Yearsley |
00:35:40 |
| Play 17 | The cat from the bag | Peter Yearsley |
00:24:32 |
| Play 18 | The knight-errant | Peter Yearsley |
00:23:59 |
| Play 19 | Release | Peter Yearsley |
00:17:43 |