Castle Dor
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was born in Cornwall in 1863, and the county, its history, and its people were to have a marked influence on his life and writing. His final, unfinished novel, 'Castle Dor', was completed after his death by another writer with strong Cornish connections, Daphne du Maurier.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was born in Cornwall in 1863, and the county, its history, and its people were to have a marked influence on his life and writing. His final, unfinished novel, 'Castle Dor', was completed after his death by another writer with strong Cornish connections, Daphne du Maurier.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781844080670 (1844080676)
Publish date: June 3rd 2004
Publisher: Virago
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
The legend of Tristan, the Cornish knight, and his doomed love for Iseult, the wife of King Mark, is an ancient one, appearing in many variations for hundreds of years. Castle Dor is a retelling of that story set in Cornwall in the 1840s. It was begun by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a British novelist who ...
"Not in your world.....but in some borderland of buried kings and lovers"Linnette Lewarne, married to a much older man, meets Breton Amyot by pure chance and their fates are forever sealed as they begin to relive a past that has happened time and time again through the centuries - that of Tristan an...
"Not in your world.....but in some borderland of buried kings and lovers"Linnette Lewarne, married to a much older man, meets Breton Amyot by pure chance and their fates are forever sealed as they begin to relive a past that has happened time and time again through the centuries - that of Tristan an...