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Rogue Herries, a novel by Hugh Walpole ; with an introduction by Eric Robson

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Rogue Herries, a novel by Hugh Walpole ; with an introduction by Eric Robson

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Rogue Herries

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233788229

Responsibility statement

a novel by Hugh Walpole ; with an introduction by Eric Robson

Series statement

The Herries chronicle, v. 1

Summary

The first volume of The Herries Chronicle, which recounts the dramatic fortunes of one family from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, in a magnificent Lake District setting. Here is fiction in glorious, sweeping measure, set against wild and beautiful scenery and crowded with fairs, balls, weddings, duels, witches, abductions, murder and romance. Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger than life Francis Herries who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them. Proud, violent and impetuous, he despises his first wife, sells his mistress at a county fair and forms a great love for the teenage gypsy Mirabell Starr. Alongside this turbulent story runs that of his son David, with enemies of his own, and that of his gentle daughter Deborah, with placid dreams that will not be realised in her father's house

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