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Sleeping Waters (Valancourt Classics) (Paperback)
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"It would be difficult to find a novel more unusual or more
original. That it is beautifully written, full of poetic passages,
and contains many fascinating descriptions ...] will be regarded as
a matter of course by those who have read any of his] preceding
books, and therefore know that John Trevena is unquestionably one
of the most notable of living writers." - "New York Times," Jan.
10, 1915
"The construction of the book is very artistic and is difficult to
accomplish, but apart from its structural merits 'Sleeping Waters'
has high value. ...] Our admiration for this author has been
expressed over and over again. There is grasp and reach and power
in his] books ...] and they are books that place their author among
the foremost of the English novelists." - "Los Angeles Times," Feb.
21, 1915
"The story is magnificently told. . . . The vividness and
monstrosity of the characters remind one of the Brontes." -
"Chicago Tribune," Jan. 13, 1915
""Sleeping Waters" is a unique novel, and it discloses still
further and more emphatically the genius of John Trevena." -
"Boston Transcript," Jan. 13, 1915
Father John Anger is worn down from a hard life as a Catholic
priest ministering to the poor of London's slums. He travels to a
remote village in Dartmoor seeking to recover his health by means
of the salubrious air and medicinal waters, and he anticipates a
long and tedious convalescence in the sleepy place. But Anger soon
finds that despite the village's rustic appearance, it holds as
much drama and tragedy as even London. Curgenven, a humpbacked
dwarf and scheming attorney, has a diabolical plot to steal the
ignorant villagers' land and resell it at a huge profit. Anger
resolves to thwart the lawyer's plan, but he is not prepared for
the dangerous secrets he will uncover, or the violent climax that
his interference will provoke. . . .
Ernest G. Henham (1870-1946) published melodramatic popular novels
as a young man before moving to Dartmoor for his health and
reinventing himself as "John Trevena." Trevena was regarded as one
of the finest novelists of his time, but today he has fallen into
total neglect, and his books are all but unobtainable. This 100th
anniversary edition of "Sleeping Waters" (1913) includes a new
introduction by Prof. Gerald Monsman, who argues for
reconsideration of Trevena as an important Edwardian writer and
regional novelist as significant as Thomas Hardy.
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