Eden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. Born in Mount Abu, British India, he studied for the stage in London, but turned to literature instead (1893). He made his name by realistic novels mainly set in Devonshire, such as lying Prophets (1896), Children of the Mist(l898) and Widecombe Fair (1913), and wrote more than 250 books in all. Of his plays, The Farmer’s Wife (1917, staged 1924) and Yellow Sands ( 1926), which he wrote with his daughter Adelaide, were perhaps the most successful. He also collaborated with Arnold Bennett and Jerome K. Jerome on plays.
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
—Eden Phillpotts
Topics: Progress, World, Magic
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