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Description edit
Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by war, and features one of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Richard Grenvile: Add a description of this character.
- Matty
- Dick
- Robin
- John Rashleigh
- Mary
- Joan
- Jonathan Rashleigh
- Alice
- Peter Courtney
- Gartred
- Jack Grenvile
- Ambrose Manaton
- Bunny
- Tamar
- Radford
- Stowe
- Menabilly
- Bevil
- Mrs. Denys
- Hopton
- Cecilia
- Percy
- Goring
- Will Sparke
- Edward Champernowne
- Frank Penrose
- Gribben
- John Digby
- Roscarrock
- Herbert Ashley
- Nick Sawle
- Langdon
- Prince Maurice
- Elizabeth
- Buckland
- Joseph
- Edward Hyde
- Bridget
- Dodman
- Jack Robartes
Quotes edit
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“"If anyone, therefore, thinks that a cripple makes an indifferent heroine to a tale, now is the time to close these pages and desist from reading. For you will never see me wed to the man I love, nor become the mother of his children. But you will learn how that love never faltered, for all its strange vicissitudes, becoming to both of us, in later years, more deep and tender. . . ."”
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“I become aware of a shadow, of a sudden droop of the sea, once far-off and a faint, comes louder now, creeping towards the sands. The tide has turned. Gone are the white stones and the cowrie shells. The sands are covered. My dreams are buried. And as darkness falls the flood-tide sweeps over the marshes and the land is covered.”
Honor Harris -
“'The aftermath of war was not a pleasant sight to the beholder. The country was laid waste, for one thing, and that the fault of the enemy. The corn ruined, the orchards devastated, the houses smoking. And in return for this the Cornish people had taken toll upon the rebel prisoners. There were many of them still lying in the ditches, with the dust and flies upon them.'”
Honor Harris -
“'I knew then as I peered forth from the curtains of my litter that war can make beasts of every one of us and that the men and women of my own breed could act even worse in warfare than the men and women of the Eastern counties. We had, each one of us, because of the civil war, streaked back two centuries in time and were become like those half savages of the fourteen hundreds who, during the War of the Roses, slit one another's throats without compunction.'”
Honor Harris
Setting & Locations edit
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Fowey
- Lanrest
- London
- Launceston
- Truro
- Fairfax
- France
- Exeter
- Tywardreath
- Bodmin
- Prince Of Wales
- Saltash
- Plymouth
- England
- Pridmouth
- Killigarth
- Werrington
- Mothercombe
- Caerhayes
- Whitehall
- Lostwithiel
- Liskeard
- Bristol
- Bideford
- St. Blazey
- Sawles
- Ireland
- Berkeley
- Helston
- Lanhydrock
- Mount Batten
- Italy
- Penryn
- Polkerris
- Holland
- Penzance
- Taunton
- Falmouth
- Castledore
- Torrington
- Boconnoc
- Looe
- St. Mawes
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1946. (authoritative list)
Followed by This Side of Innocence.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daphne du Maurier (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1946
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Publication Date: 1946
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Du Maurier, Daphne
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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