''Enoc Huws'' is a classic novel by

Daniel Owen Daniel Owen (20 October 1836 – 22 October 1895) was a Welsh novelist. He is generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century, and as the first significant novelist to write in Welsh. Early life Daniel Owen was bor ...

, written in the

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and first published in 1891. It was serialised in ''Y Cymro'' prior to publication in book form. It has been adapted for stage and

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(in an early 1974 TV adaptation, and later as ''Y Dreflan'' on S4C).

Plot summary

The story is a social comedy and concerns the activities of the villainous Captain Trefor, a

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who convinces investors to speculate on lead mining schemes and pays himself a generous salary from the proceeds. After being abandoned by most of his previous investors, Trefor sets his sights on the naïve but successful shopkeeper Enoc Huws, who is in love with Trefor's daughter, Susan, and sees investing in Trefor's scheme as an opportunity to get close to her. Sub-plots follow Enoc as he fights off the unwanted affection of his housekeeper, and a group of chapel elders wishing to appoint a new minister. The novel is set in the same nameless town as Owen's earlier novel Rhys Lewis, and features a few of the same characters, though it is not in any real sense a sequel.

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External links

''Enoc Huws''
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