Rogue Herries - Hardcover

Walpole, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849025703 ISBN 13: 9781849025706

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2011

Synopsis

The first in the Herries Chronicle saga bu Hugh Walpole.

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Review:

Modern readers will empathise with the Herries' deep passion for their 'beloved' Fells, their sometimes gloomy and dangerous characters and breathtaking views. || Fiction in glorious, sweeping measure, set against wild and beautiful scenery and crowded with fairs, balls, weddings, duels, witches, abductions, murder and romance. For those that haven't yet read Hugh Walpole there is a treat in store for you. Surely a welcome Christmas gift? || Walpole's hamfisted, messy and eccentric attempt at the Great Lakeland Novel still deserves to be read. The episodes - by turns gracelessly ornate and bleakly brilliant - remain strangely enthralling and memorable, their self-indulgence a guilty pleasure for the reader too. In the Herries novels, Walpole confessed, he had allowed himself to be, for the first time in his adult life, "what I really am - a little boy telling stories in the dormitory".

About the Author:

Eric Robson was born in southern Scotland and has lived most of his life in Cumbria. For the last 15 years he has had a small farm in the southern Lake District where he keeps sheep. A broadcaster and television documentary maker, he got to know Alfred Wainwright uncommonly well while filming with him in the 1980s. He was executive producer of Granada's Wainwright Country and consultant for the BBC's Wainwright Walks series. He is best known as the presenter of Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time, where he sees his job as keeping the panellists from 'straying into horticultural Latin'.

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Hugh Walpole was one of the most widely admired novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, and the hugely successful Herries Chronicles made him a rich man. Popular amongst, and generous to, other writers, he was knighted in 1937 and died in 1941.

About this edition

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849025703
• ISBN 13: 9781849025706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 410