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Miser's Money
The miser of the title is a woman-hater and pessimist who tries to bequeath his bitterness to a young man in love, but love, not moneyed selfishness, wins in the end. Set on the central moor about Fox Tor, Childe's Tomb and Princetown.
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Sources: Internet Archive (free scan) · Miser's Money, Legendary Dartmoor. First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.
Number 16 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.
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Medieval Village near Hound Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”
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