Eden Phillpotts

1862–1960 · English novelist, poet & playwright

Eden Phillpotts was a prolific English author best known for novels set on Dartmoor and for detective fiction such as The Red Redmaynes. He also wrote poetry and nature essays, including the 1918 collection A Shadow Passes, a series of prose-and-verse vignettes on the natural world.

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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper”

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