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A Romance of Wastdale: A Mountain and a Marriage, Settled in a Night
Author(s): A. E. W. Mason (Author)
- Publisher: Aeneas Press
- Publication Date: September 16, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: B0GXH7SJ4T
- ISBN-13: 9785486567575
Book Description
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, Walter Sickert and John Constable. A man returns from the Alps to find his fiancée in the house of a friend, and the mountain and the marriage are settled in a single night. A. E. W. Mason wrote this early, before The Four Feathers, and it is his tightest book: two hundred pages, four people, and a climbing accident that may not be one. The Wastdale rock is described by someone who had been on it. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Constable and Grimshaw turn the Lake District light, weather and water that shape the night on Wastdale rock into a visual counterpart.
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About the Author
A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948) was a British author and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1906 to 1910. He is known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Hanaud, including At the Villa Rose (1910), and for Witness for the Defence (1913).
