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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.
Dinah, an orphan raised by the Bamsey family, is torn between suitors among the moor farms, with the steady Lawrence Maynard at the heart of her story.
Phillpotts's first Dartmoor book: sketches and short tales of moor life that opened the vein he would work for the next sixty years.
A gathering of Dartmoor tales: moor-folk, their trades and their troubles, in a dozen short stories.
More short tales of the moor, from Postbridge and beyond, in Phillpotts's plain moorland voice.
Phillpotts in his own voice: verse and prose wandering the byways, moors and coasts of Devon and Cornwall.
English author of the Dartmoor Cycle, eighteen novels of the moor (1862-1960).
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.
