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The Dartmoor House That Jack Built

by John Trevena

Trevena's 1909 Dartmoor novel, published the same year as Granite, the final volume of his trilogy.

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The Dartmoor Window Again

by Beatrice Chase

Chase's 1918 sequel to Through a Dartmoor Window, opening with her longing to draw outsiders into "this old-world haven of peace."

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The Forest on the Hill

by Eden Phillpotts

In the ancient oak woods of Yarner on the moor's eastern edge above Bovey Tracey: Timothy Snow, Drusilla, and Audrey Redstone, a story of the woodland and the people who work it.

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The Gaverocks

by Sabine Baring-Gould

A tale of the Cornish coast: the tyrannical old squire Hender Gaverock and his two sons, and the ruin that follows the rebellious Constantine.

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The Green Hill: Letters to a Son

by Sophie Pierce

Sophie Pierce's memoir of the sudden death of her son Felix, written as letters composed during walks and swims on Dartmoor and the South Devon coast.

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The Mother

by Eden Phillpotts

On the moor around Vixen Tor and the Walkham, a mother is brought to give evidence against her own son, a poacher, and to see him sent to prison.

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The Poacher's Wife

by Eden Phillpotts

Daniel Sweetland, a poacher wrongly condemned for murder, breaks away and flees while his young wife Minnie keeps faith at home and works to clear his name.

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The Portreeve

by Eden Phillpotts

Set in the church-town of Bridestowe, beneath the moor's northern wing near Okehampton: the story of Orlando Wolferstan and his neighbours through the turning year.

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The River

by Eden Phillpotts

By Wistman's Wood and the West Dart, the lonely warrener Nicholas Edgecombe and the dissolute young farmer Timothy Oldreive fall into conflict over the beautiful Hannah Bradridge.