The Gaverocks
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| Author | Sabine Baring-Gould |
|---|---|
| Published | 1887 |
The Gaverocks: A Tale of the Cornish Coast is an 1887 novel by English priest and scholar Sabine Baring-Gould.[1]
Hender Gaverock is an eccentric old Cornish squire, who has two sons, Garens and Constantine, whose natural spirits have been almost wholly crushed by his harsh and brutal rule. Garens philosophically submits, but Constantine rebels; and the book is chiefly occupied with the misdeeds, and their consequences, of the younger son, whose revolt against his father's tyranny rapidly degenerates into a career of vice and crime. He marries secretly, deserts his wife, allows himself to be thought drowned, commits bigamy, robs his father, and is finally murdered as he is about to flee the country.[2]
