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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 22, 2009 16:37:36 GMT
Macmillan (1945) CONTENTS
Preface
The Wicked Vicar of Lansillian
The Stone That Liked Company
All Soul's Night
The Beneficient Shoes
Restinnes? Restinnes?
Cornish Conversation Piece
How Dick Stephens Fought the Bear
Pageant of Plymouth
The Duchy of Cornwall
Rialton: A Cornish Monastic Manor
The Story of Polruddon
Cornwall in the Civil War
John Opie and the Harmony Cot
Kilvert in Cornwall
The Sentimental Journey
Our Local Heritage
Three Great Travellers on St Austell
Tribute to a China Clay Worker
In the Gyllyngdune Gardens
West-Country Journey
Charles HendresonThe preface is as follows: 'One word about my title. After some hesitation I have decided to call this book 'West-Country Stories'. I use the word 'stories' in its older sense, going back to the Middle Ages, to include narratives of both fact and fiction. In any case the stories of invention, even though mostly ghost stories, have a foundation of fact, I hope, are not wholly without imagination. And I call the book 'West-County Stories', for though nearly the whole of it is concerned with Cornwall, in one or two places I cross the Tamar boundary.
Most of these pieces were written before the war. In re-reading them now it is touching to reflect how the apprehensions expressed in some of them for the visible memorials of our past have been all to bitterly borne out, especially in the cases of Plymouth and Exeter. perhaps some of these descriptions may serve to bring back things of beauty in the West Country as they were, now gone forever.' - Polmear Mine, St Austell, Autumn 1944. # Personally speaking, this has been one of the lovliest collections I've read for a long time, and should definately feature on everones bookshelf.
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