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{{Short description|Book by Eden Phillpotts}}
{{For|the film adaptation|The American Prisoner (film)}}
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[[File:TheAmericanPrisoner.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]])]]
'''''The American Prisoner''''' is a [[British literature|British novel]] written by [[Eden Phillpotts]] and published in 1904<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/02/13/archives/eden-phillpottss-new-story-the-american-prisoner-a-romance-of-the.html
|title=Eden Phillpotts's New Story.; THE AMERICAN PRISONER. The New York Times
|publisher=query.nytimes.com
|access-date=2008-01-25
|date=February 13, 1904
}}
</ref> and [[The American Prisoner (film)|adapted into a film by the same name]] in 1929.  The story concerns an English woman who lives at [[Fox Tor]] farm, and an American captured during the [[American War of Independence]] and held at the prison at [[Princetown, England|Princetown]] on [[Dartmoor]].

In the novel ''Malherb'' is a miscreant who destroys [[Childes Tomb|Childe's tomb]] and beats his servant.  He is depicted as a victim of his own bad temper rather than a sadist.

Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by [[William Crossing]] rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.

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[[Category:1904 British novels]]
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[[Category:Novels set during the American Revolutionary War]]
[[Category:Novels set on Dartmoor]]
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