Straeon y Pentan (Daniel Owen)

“Wyst di be,” ebe Wil wrthyf un diwrnod, “mi leiciwn farw yr un funud â’r hen Burgess yma.”
“Pam hynny?” ebe fi. 
“Am fod ganddo gymin’ i’w aped amdano,” ebe Wil, “a thra y bydden nhw yn trin ei gês o mi fedrwn snecio i’r nefoedd heb i neb sylwi.”

Daniel Owen, without a doubt, was the most famous Welsh-language novelist of the nineteenth century. His novels, including Rhys Lewis and Enoc Huws proved more popular with the critics and the public than any had done before that point. A statue was erected in his memory in Mold, Flintshire, the town he loved and where he lived his whole life.

Straeon y Pentan, the Fireside Tales, were first published in 1895 and this was the author's last publication; and yet was one of the first ever, if not the first, volumes of short stories to be published in Welsh. 

Funny stories, romantic stories, ghost stories; fond portrayals of local characters, stories about animals: the range of the twenty-four stories in this volume is vast and shows the author's wide-ranging interest in anyone and everyone he met.

Paperback, 114 pages.