![]() He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. In the book’s prologue, six months before Ross returns from fighting in America, his father Joshua is close to death. The wind and the sea figure as characters in their own right. Ross Poldark is subtitled “A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787” and is strongly rooted in the geography, people, and events of the Cornish countryside. Rochester, I decided to read the first novel in Winston Graham’s saga and decide for myself. When Laurel Ann Nattress assured Austenprose readers that Ross was a hero every bit as worthy of their warm regard as Mr. I wondered whether there was more to Ross Poldark than his good looks. ![]() ![]() Never having watched the original series on Masterpiece Theatre in the 1970s, I was unfamiliar with Ross Poldark and a little curious about the buzz surrounding the new BBC/PBS series starring Aidan Turner. ![]()
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