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Castle Dor is a 1961 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), set in 19th century Cornwall. Plot introduction. Castle Dor began life as the unfinished last novel by Sir Arthur
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Set in 1860's Cronwall, Castle Dor weaves the boring tale of Amyot (a young Breton sailor) and Linnet (the young and beautiful wife of an extremely old man). How the pair meet, love and ultimately live out the tragic end of their fabled counterparts (Tristan & Iseult) makes for a snooze fest of epic proportions.
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Castle Dor is set in Cornwall, around the river Fowey, in the mid-nineteenth century and it tells of the Breton lad Amyot Trestane who falls in love with the newly married Linnet Lewarne, an affair which tragically re-enacts the doomed love of Tristan and Iseult from the Arthurian legend.
Castle Dor as a narrative is inextricably tied to the location and topography of Cornwall, tracing paths from Mark’s Gate to Castle-an-Dinas as a means of mapping fate and literary history.
7 de ene. de 2010 · Castle Dor. Daphne Du Maurier. Little, Brown Book Group, Jan 7, 2010 - Fiction - 288 pages. BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing...
A spellbinding love story, Castle Dor was the unfinished last novel of the British novelist Sir Arthur Quiller-Crouch, better known as "Q." The novel was passed on to Daphne du Maurier by his...
18 de mar. de 2009 · Castle Dor (1962) offers a different model of history and place to that explored in du Maurier's other works, in particular her Cornish novels.
