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Set around the famous fair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a broad, comic picture of a moor community.
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.
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.
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.
A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.
