Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is truly a fantastic bargain. Having read all of these books many years ago, when they actually came out, it is a pleasure to own them all in attractive paperback binding and in common format. In the past, I could only find them in either paperback (while the old series was underway in the 1970s) and later in a variety of formats. Bookstores didn't regularly carry them, so I had to find them at libraries and borrow rather than own. Now, I have them all at last and for a very reasonable price. --- The author began the series many decades ago, long before it was popularized with the PBS series of the 1970s. The books take you into the copper mining and commerce industries of Cornwall during the period from 1783 to 1799 -- When a relatively impoverished member of the gentry, Captain Ross Poldark returns from captivity and presumed death during service with the British Army in North America in late 1783. His improbable, but highly successful marriage to a miner's daughter and rise to eminence as a miner and leader of society in Cornwall involves the novels ROSS POLDARK, DEMELZA, JEREMY POLDARK, WARLEGGEN, BLACK MOON, FOUR SWANS and ANGRY TIDE. As a new member of Parliament near the end of this series he begins to rub shoulders with some of the nobility and national political leaders. Novels begin again with the year 1810 amid the Napoleonic Wars and on to 1820 -- STRANGER FROM THE SEA, MILLER'S DANCE, LOVING CUP, TWISTED SWORD (1815 - Battle of Waterloo) and finally concludes with BELLA POLDARK (1818-20). Poldark's children are growing up and getting into adventures and scrapes of their own. Ross rises to a Baronetcy (Warleggen is only Knight), and meets with such figures as the Prince Regent and future Prime Minister George Canning. This is a great series and Graham was masterful and accurate writer of historical fiction. At $69 for the entire set, it is a super bargain.