Buy this book on-line GRAHAM,WINSTON**: : THE FOUR SWANS: A Novel of Cornwall 1795-7LONDON.COLLINS,1976. ISBN 0002222469.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn but a blue ink date (1976) towards top corner of ffe (front free endpaper) and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,scenic colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with pale blue,white and red lettering lettering,rear panel plain black with white lettering 'The sixth POLDARK novel'; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.The rear panel of the dw/dj has a couple of creases in the main panel,away from it's edges.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; two barely perceptible spots to top edges and a couple of small foxing spots to fore-edges; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - no foxing/spotting to text body and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,
therefore would appear unread - apart from
my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver
gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate pale green background with Poldark,Carne and Chynoweth family tree charts,illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st
edn,3-409pp [paginated] includes Books 1-3 comprising 14,10 and 10 respectively,
plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,
a dedication with author's note to it's recto,and Books' separator pages.Author's 6th POLDARK novel.
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The tide of time,which has borne the Poldarks through five masterly novels of eighteenth-century Cornwall to nationwide fame in the successful BBC TV series,
'Poldark',now sweeps them on into the sixth - and many will say the best - novel in their continuing saga,and into fresh resolutions and developments.
'The Four Swans' unfolds with sympathy,
humour,understanding and Winston Graham's incomparable narrative skill the stories of four women and four marriages which are
woven into the texture of Ross Poldark's life: his wife Demelza; their friend Caroline Penvenen,whose fiance Ross rescued from a French prison camp; Elizabeth,now the wife of Ross's old opponent,George Warleggan; and Morwenna Chynoweth,whose ill-starred love for Demelza's brother seems eclipsed by her marriage to a clergyman of fleshly appetites.
All these marriages are to some extent in
the melting pot,and certainly Ross's own,
which he has thought the most deeply rooted,the most secure.One man,a charming man and a poet,comes into their lives and comes between him and Demelza.
Whether she is part lost - or wholly
lost - Ross does not know.
In every end Winston Graham perceives a beginning.Nothing is static.His novels,
like life itself,move irresistibly on.As he searchingly explores the interaction
of characters within a given historical setting,each new novel in this outstanding
series leaves the reader deeply satisfied,
yet ever hungry for more.
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