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The Secret Woman
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The Secret Woman

by Eden Phillpotts

After twenty years of marriage, farmer Anthony Redvers takes up with another woman; his wife Ann and their grown sons Jesse and Michael are caught in the reckoning.

The Striking Hours
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The Striking Hours

by Eden Phillpotts

A gathering of Dartmoor tales: moor-folk, their trades and their troubles, in a dozen short stories.

The Three Brothers
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The Three Brothers

by Eden Phillpotts

The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.

The Three Towns Bibliotheca
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The Three Towns Bibliotheca

by Richard Nicholls Worth

Plymouth

A bibliographic catalogue of books, pamphlets and papers written by, published in, or relating to Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse (the “Three Towns”), with short biographical notices of the principal local authors - a reference work for anyone...

The Virgin in Judgment
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The Virgin in Judgment

by Eden Phillpotts

David Bowden's devoted sister Rhoda cannot abide his wife Margaret; her jealousy slowly poisons the household, with the easygoing Bartley Crocker drawn in.

The West Country Garland
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The West Country Garland

by Richard Nicholls Worth

Worth's 1875 anthology of West Country poetry, folk songs and traditional verses drawn from writers across five centuries.

The Whirlwind
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The Whirlwind

by Eden Phillpotts

Daniel Brendon, devout and hard-working, comes to Ruddyford Farm in the wild Tavy country and marries Sarah Jane Friend, daughter of a peat-works man, setting up a bitter rivalry with the calculating Jarratt Weekes.

Tourist's Guide to Devonshire
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Tourist's Guide to Devonshire

by Richard Nicholls Worth

Plymouth

A practical touring guide to Devon in two parts, covering the south and north of the county separately - routes, coastline, towns and countryside for the Victorian rail-and-road tourist.

Tourist's Guide to South Devon
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Tourist's Guide to South Devon

by Richard Nicholls Worth

Plymouth

A touring guide to South Devon's coast, rail routes and roads, part of Worth's series of regional Stanford's guides alongside his North Devon and combined Devonshire volumes, reaching at least a 3rd edition by 1883.