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by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Author), Daphne Du Maurier (Author), Daphne Du Maurier (Author)
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  • Paperback: 237 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; New Ed edition (10 Aug 1979)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330257854
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330257855
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,402,619 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A recreation of the legend of Tristan and Iseult, now set in 19th-c. Cornwall.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Overlooked GEM!!!, 31 Oct 2002
By Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Castle Dor (Hardcover)
This book was given to my by my uncle when I was 10, for he knew it would appeal to me. It did and still does. I have reread this many times, and was just pulling it out to do it again and thought maybe I would pass on my love for this book.
The original manuscript was done by Arthur Quiller-Couch but never finished, so the great Daphne Dumaurier picked up the baton and carried on to give us a haunting tale of Auld Souls, star-crossed lovers shrouded in the mists of Cornwall. A simply country doctor recognises the signs and moves to keep the doomed lovers apart so the ancient pattern will not be repeated. But the more they try to keep them from each other, the more Fate steps is so prove the pattern cannot be broken.

A stunning gem, one I am surprised is not reprinted more or made in a movie.

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3.0 out of 5 stars "Not in your world.....but in some borderland of buried kings and lovers", 6 May 2009
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Linnette Lewarne, married to a much older man, meets Breton Amyot by pure chance and their fates are forever sealed as they begin to relive a past that has happened time and time again through the centuries - that of Tristan and Iseult. Doctor Carfax watches from the sidelines as he puts the pieces of the puzzle together with that of the legends and ends with a race against time to stop the legend from repeating itself into tragedy once again - all culminating in a on a very foggy Cornwall All Hallows E'en. Is the good Doctor in time or not?

Well you know me, I don't tell. Castle Dor, unfinished at the death of author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q"), was completed by Du Maurier at the request of his daughter. A bit slow and dry at the start (I've not read anything from "Q" before, nor am I all that familiar with the legends of Tristan and Iseult), but a good finish, albeit not the strongest. If you're big into the legends of T&I I'd go for it, but Du Maurier fans will probably be disappointed - the parts she contributed at the end are minimal and not her usual style. 3/5 stars.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Castle Dor by who? ?, 10 Dec 2009
This review is from: Castle Dor (Virago Modern Classics) (Paperback)
Castle D'Or was the final, unfinished, work of the distinguished Cornish writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (pen-name "Q"). And so it is a pity that Virago has left his name off the cover of this edition.

Daphne Du Maurier, at the request of Q's daughter, completed her dear friend's work some years after his death. It has to be said that she has done a wonderful job - she has mastered his style, and I have no idea where the join is.

So don't pick up this book looking for Daphne Du Maurier. You won't find her. But if you enjoy her writing you might just enjoy Q too. She held him in high regard.

And she wasn't the only one - Helen Hanff wrote a whole book about him!

I hadn't read Q before, but Castle D'Or has definitely left me interested enough to seek out more of his work.

It is a retelling of an old legend - the tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult - set on the north coast of Cornwall.

Iseult is recast as Linnet, who married the local publican who offered a good match before she had any notion of what love was. And Tristan is recast as Amyot, a French seaman. Both are utterly believable three-dimensional, and very fallible, human beings.

Maybe too fallible. Linnet is a little too petulant at times, and Amyot a little too unflappable. But I think you have to give the author the benefit of the doubt. This was an unfinished work, and who knows what he might have refined given the chance.

And you can't doubt the passion. The love affair is utterly believable, vivid and haunting.

The story is set against the background of a village community. The people are lightly, but clearly, sketched and their lives provided a good contrast to the drama that impinged upon it.

Doctor Carfax is a pillar of that community. He has studied the differing accounts of Tristan and Iseult, and recognises what is happening. He acts to try to prevent tragedy, but can he? Is it all too late?

Castle D'Or isn't perfect, but it is a lovely, atmospheric piece of old-fashioned story telling.

I sat down and read it in an evening.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Du Maurier's best book
An interesting book, mainly because of its joint authorship and its retelling of the legend of the tragic lovers Tristan and Isolde. Read more
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