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Genre/Form: | Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J C Tregarthen |
ISBN: | 1904880029 9781904880028 |
OCLC Number: | 58839597 |
Description: | xiii, 289 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Contents Introduction John's Parentage Early Memories Lost in the Reed-bed Sent to School A Great Adventure Christmas Market A Young Emigrant The Prize Distribution Goes to Work The Fisherman Caught In Trouble Forget-me-nots A Heavy Responsibility The Dead Fox Mysterious Happenings A Memorable Journey The Gipsy Queen Among Smugglers The Honour of Lanyon The Old Story Love and Death The Great Winter Loveday at Forest Carn Foul Play Revenge Felton Outwitted The Pedlar's Story At the Flora Disgrace and Despair Turns Poacher In a Quandary A Guilty Conscience A Ghost Story A Night on the Moor Goodbye to Dickie Romeo and Juliet The Fight Outlawed Joy-bells Glossary |
Responsibility: | J.C. Tregarthen. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"John Penrose was first published in 1923 by John Murray and copies can occasionally be found in antiquarian bookshops and auction houses. Cornwall Editions, a relatively new company based in Fowey, is to be congratulated on bringing out this edition, together with an attractive selection of other items of interest to lovers of Cornwall, its history and its literature. John Penrose is J.C. Tregarthen's first novel and this edition contains a fascinating introduction written by Bert Biscoe. Bert Biscoe is a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh and is described as "a poet, songwriter, Cornish politician and champion of Cornish literature". He regards Tregarthen's work as a "tremendous literary treasure" and the book as "an intelligent insight into a natural world of which man is but a creature part". Readers of early twentieth-century Cornish literature that included the "Penhale" Trilogy of Crosbie Garstin and the works of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q), will fully support Biscoe's verdict. This is a delightful story, beautifully crafted, containing rare insights into the human habitat of Penwith in the nineteenth century. The landscape is acutely observed and described in sharp detail, the sounds of Cornish dialect emerge pleasantly from the words and phrases: above all a picture is drawn and an atmosphere created of the essential nature of early nineteenth-century Cornwall. The story itself chronicles the adventures of John Penrose, the son of a farm labourer, born in the parish of Madron, near Penzance in 1829. Described as "A Romance of the Land's End" on the front cover, the story has, as all romances should, a happy ending with John's marriage to Loveday. But a near fatal fight threatens to wreck any prospect of happiness, as does the sour relationship between John's "Master" and the local squire. Poaching on the moors, smuggling, vivid descriptions of animal and bird life provide wonderful colour throughout the journey to the Church, to the rapprochement between Sir Rose Tresillian and John's Master, and to the Squire's generous and kind tribute to the groom, who promptly promised never to poach again with either rod or gun on the Squire's preserve." John Baxter in St Minver Link Read more...

