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Vote: | I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. |
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Eden Phillpotts (November, 1862 - December 29, 1960) was a British novelist, poet, and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.
He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.
Philpotts also wrote many other books with a Dartmoor setting. He was for many years the President of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and cared passionately about the conservation of Dartmoor.
One of his novels, Widecombe Fair, inspired by an annual fair at the village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, provided the scenario for his comic play The Farmer's Wife. It went on to become a silent movie of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and filmed in 1927. The cast included: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker and Gibb McLaughlin.
Philpotts was a friend of Agatha Christie, who was a fan of his work and a regular visitor to his home.
Some of his novels about Dartmoor include:
*My Devon Year (ISBN 1841141364)
*Children of the Mist
*The River
*The Thief of Virtue
*The Whirlwind
*The Beacon
*Orphan Dinah
*The American Prisoner
*Virgin in Judgment
*The Three Brothers
*Children of Men
*The Mother
External link *
...(more on Wikipedia)
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