Enoc Huws

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Enoc Huws is a classic novel by Daniel Owen, written in the Welsh language and first published in 1891.^[1] It has been adapted for stage and television (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 con artist who convinces investors to speculate on lead mining schemes and paying 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 by convenient coincidence is also in love with Trefor's daughter, Susan, and sees investing in Trefor's scheme (which he assumes to be honest) as an opportunity to get close to the young woman.

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.

References[]

External links[]

• Enoc Huws at the Internet Archive (in Welsh)

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