Trevethlan (Vol. 1-3)
A Victorian Family Saga of Inheritance, Disputed Descent, Courtship, and Property LawBy William Davy Watson
Length14h
About this audiobook
Trevethlan (Vols. 1–3), subtitled A Cornish Story, is a substantial regional romance rooted in the landscapes, customs, legends, and social tensions of Cornwall. Across its three-volume form, William Davy Watson combines the picturesque descriptive manner associated with nineteenth-century local-color fiction with the suspense, emotional reversals, and moral testing of the historical and domestic novel. The work's attention to place is more than scenic: Cornwall's communities, inherited loyalties, and traditions shape the characters' identities and illuminate the pressures produced by class, family, and changing social conditions. Its expansive structure and richly circumstantial narration place it within the Victorian tradition of the "provincial" or regional novel, while its atmosphere also recalls the Gothic romance's fascination with secrecy, ancestry, and threatened inheritance. Watson was a Cornish writer whose intimate knowledge of the county evidently informed the novel's topography and cultural texture. His interest lies not merely in presenting Cornwall as an exotic margin, but in recording a distinctive society and preserving the memory of its habits, speech, beliefs, and historical consciousness. Trevethlan consequently reflects the nineteenth century's broader enthusiasm for antiquarian research, national and regional identity, and fiction grounded in lived communities. This edition will reward readers of Victorian three-decker fiction, regional literature, historical romance, and Cornish cultural history. It offers both the narrative pleasures of an absorbing family saga and a valuable literary document of how Cornwall was imagined, remembered, and represented in the nineteenth century.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length14 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Making of a Marchioness + The Shuttle (2 Unabridged Classic Romances)
26Chapter VII.
2Volume 1
27Chapter VIII.
3Chapter I.
28Chapter IX.
4Chapter II.
29Chapter X.
5Chapter III.
30Chapter XI.
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6Chapter IV.
31Chapter XII.
7Chapter V.
32Chapter XIII.
8Chapter VI.
33Chapter XIV.
9Chapter VII.
34Chapter XV.
10Chapter VIII.
35Volume 3
11Chapter IX.
36Chapter I.
12Chapter X.
37Chapter II.
13Chapter XI.
38Chapter III.
14Chapter XII.
39Chapter IV.
15Chapter XIII.
40Chapter V.
16Chapter XIV.
41Chapter VI.
17Chapter XV.
42Chapter VII.
18Chapter XVI.
43Chapter VIII.
19Volume 2
44Chapter IX.
20Chapter I.
45Chapter X.
21Chapter II.
46Chapter XI.
22Chapter III.
47Chapter XII.
23Chapter IV.
48Chapter XIII.
24Chapter V.
49Chapter XIV.
25Chapter VI.
50Chapter XV.
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