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The Fortress (Herries Chronicles)

The Fortress (Herries Chronicles)

by HughWalpole (Author), EricRobson (Introduction), Eric Robson (Introduction), Hugh Walpole (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

It had been the wish of her whole life to flee from all the Herries, but Walter Herries had challenged her, and she had taken up the challenge'. Judith Paris, now middle aged returns to the Lakes to deal with the bitter feud between the two branches of the family. A feud culminating in the construction by one branch of a huge house known as The Fortress, which will dominate the land of the others. But within this conflict the children of the two families have important roles to play.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 832
 Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 09 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 0711228914
ISBN 13: 9780711228917
Book Overview: / Judith Paris, now middle aged, returns to the Lakes to deal with the bitter feud between two branches of the family, in the third of Walpole's Herries Chronicles / New edition of long out-of-print classic novel / Superbly realised Lake District setting / 'After finishing The Fortress I can only affirm that my respect for Walpole as a story teller was quadrupled' Compton Mackenzie Daily Mail

Media Reviews
Fiction in glorious, sweeping measure, set against wild and beautiful scenery and crowded with fairs, balls, weddings, duels, witches, abductions, murder and romance. For those that haven't yet read Hugh Walpole there is a treat in store for you. Surely a welcome Christmas gift? Keswick Reminder Walpole's hamfisted, messy and eccentric attempt at the Great Lakeland Novel still deserves to be read. The episodes - by turns gracelessly ornate and bleakly brilliant - remain strangely enthralling and memorable, their self-indulgence a guilty pleasure for the reader too. In the Herries novels, Walpole confessed, he had allowed himself to be, for the first time in his adult life, what I really am - a little boy telling stories in the dormitory . Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Hugh Walpole was one of the most widely admired novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, and the hugely successful Herries Chronicles made him a rich man. Popular amongst, and generous to, other writers, he was knighted in 1937 and died in 1941. Eric Robson was born in southern Scotland and has lived most of his life in Cumbria. For the last 15 years he has had a small farm in the southern Lake District where he keeps sheep. A broadcaster and television documentary maker, he got to know Alfred Wainwright uncommonly well while filming with him in the 1980s. He was executive producer of Granada's Wainwright Country and consultant for the BBC's Wainwright Walks series. He is best known as the presenter of Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time, where he sees his job as keeping the panellists from 'straying into horticultural Latin'. To visit Eric's Striding Edge website click here