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Rogue Herries (Herries Chronicles)

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During the First World War he served in the Red Cross on the Russian-Austrian front, and worked in British propaganda in Petrograd and London.

My Mother had these on her bookshelves, and I think I must have been around eleven, when I first took down this book.

Paste downs good condition marbled with some foxing to the edges, the book sellers label is in the bottom right hand corner of the front paste down. It was a big book; it was a family saga; it was a historical novel; and it was set in a part of the country that the author loved; the place he moved to in middle age, to live for the rest of his life. The Herries stories have seldom been out of print, and in 2014 WorldCat listed a dozen recent reissues of Walpole's works, including The Wooden Horse, The Dark Forest, The Secret City, Jeremy, and The Cathedral. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. His characters, too, become so alive to the reader because, I think, he immersed himself in them totally.

First edition, first printing of the first in the Herries Chronicle series, set in the Lake District.If you are faithful with the details the large effects will grow inevitably out of those very details". They were simple people, so I wasn’t looking for too much, but many of the moments that would have illuminated their lives, were rushed over or even missed completely. Whether Walpole was at Brackenburn or Piccadilly, Cheevers was almost always with him, and often accompanied him on overseas trips. An 18th century family saga about the wild and tormented Francis Herries, who starts a new life in Cumberland.

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