Red Spider, Volume 1 (of 2)
The narrative unfolds in a remote Devon parish where village life, family ties, and local superstition shape a series of interconnected episodes. Central tensions over land and inheritance involve blunt yeomen and an elderly relation, while courtship, jealousies, and acts of mischief and violence ripple through fields, cottages, and moorland. Richly observed scenes of landscape, dialect, customs, and fading folk beliefs supply local colour, and episodic incidents contrast practical rural economy with lingering superstition and human frailty.
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The narrative unfolds in a remote Devon parish where village life, family ties, and local superstition shape a series of interconnected episodes. Central tensions over land and inheritance involve blunt yeomen and an elderly relation, while courtship, jealousies, and acts of mischief and violence ripple through fields, cottages, and moorland. Richly observed scenes of landscape, dialect, customs, and fading folk beliefs supply local colour, and episodic incidents contrast practical rural economy with lingering superstition and human frailty.
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