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CASTLE DOR

Daphne du Maurier

1940237 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1940
first published
  • 1962Doubleday · 274 pages · ENG
  • 1973White Lion Publishers · 242 pages · ENGISBN 9780856171154
  • 1994ARROW · 238 pages · ENGISBN 9780099275817
  • 2010Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780748114610
  • 2013Little Brown & Company · ENGISBN 9780316253581
  • 1979Macmillan · 237 pagesISBN 9780330257855
  • 1940Amereon Limited · ENGISBN 9780884111481
  • 2004Virago Press Ltd · 288 pagesISBN 9781844080670

A spellbinding love story, Castle Dor was the unfinished last novel of the British novelist Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, better known as "Q." The novel was passed on to Daphne du Maurier by his daughter, who was sure that du Maurier's storytelling skills were perfectly suited to completing the tale. The result is a magical, compelling retelling of Tristan and Iseult, the star-crossed lovers transplanted in time to the Cornwall of the last century. A chance encounter between the Breton onion-seller, Amyot Trestane, and the newly-wed Linnet Lewarne launches their tragic story, taking them in the fateful footsteps of the doomed lovers of Cornish legend.

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ThemesLove
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