The Fortress

By Hugh Walpole Introduction by Eric Robson

Online price: £7.99

Paperback, 832 pages
Published: 9th October 2008

Category: Fiction

Series: Herries Chronicles

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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.

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

Publication Details:

Binding: Paperback, 832 pages
ISBN: 9780711228917
Format: 198mm x 128mm

BIC Code: FC
BISAC Code: FIC004000
Imprint: Frances Lincoln

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