Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated)

A giant of early-twentieth century English literature, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prolific novelist, poet and literary critic. Celebrated for his clear and effortless style, he produced masterpieces in numerous genres, including adventure fiction, children’s classics, poetry, critical essays and influential anthologies. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook provides Quiller-Couch’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Quiller-Couch’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* All 23 novels, with individual contents tables

* Features rare novels, including the unfinished novel ‘Castle Dor’. (Please note: Daphne du Maurier’s completion cannot appear due to copyright)

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork

* Rare story collections

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories

* Easily locate the stories you want to read

* Poetry collections

* Wide range of Quiller-Couch’s non-fiction

* Features the author’s autobiography — first time in digital print

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

CONTENTS:

The Novels

Dead Man’s Rock (1887)

The Astonishing History of Troy Town (1888)

The Splendid Spur (1889)

The Blue Pavilions (1891)

Ia (1896)

St. Ives (1898)

The Ship of Stars (1899)

The Westcotes (1902)

Hetty Wesley (1903)

The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903)

Fort Amity (1904)

The Shining Ferry (1905)

The Mayor of Troy (1906)

Sir John Constantine (1906)

Poison Island (1907)

Major Vigoureux (1907)

True Tilda (1909)

Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910)

Brother Copas (1911)

Hocken and Hunken (1912)

Nicky-Nan, Reservist (1915)

Foe-Farrell (1918)

Castle Dor (1962)

The Short Story Collections

Noughts and Crosses (1891)

The Delectable Duchy (1893)

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter’s Tales (1893)

Wandering Heath (1895)

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900)

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902)

Two Sides of the Face (1903)

Shakespeare’s Christmas and Other Stories (1905)

Merry-Garden and Other Stories (1907)

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910)

Corporal Sam and Other Stories (1910)

News from the Duchy (1913)

In Powder and Crinoline (1913)

Mortallone and Aunt Trinidad (1917)

Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Short Stories

List of Short Stories in Chronological Order

List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Poetry Collections

Green Bays, Verses and Parodies (1893)

The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems (1912)

The Non-Fiction

The Warwickshire Avon (1891)

Preface to ‘The Golden Pomp’ (1895)

Adventures in Criticism (1896)

Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 (1900)

From a Cornish Window (1906)

Introduction to ‘English Sonnets’ (1897)

The Oxford Book of Ballads (1911)

Thomas Edward Brown (1911)

Poetry (1914)

On the Art of Writing (1916)

Introduction to ‘Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays’ (1916) by William Hazlitt

On the Art of Reading (1920)

Preface to ‘The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse’ (1922)

Preface to ‘Oxford Book of English Prose’ (1923)

The Autobiography

Memories and Opinions (1945)

Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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A giant of early-twentieth century English literature, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prolific novelist, poet and literary critic. Celebrated for his clear and effortless style, he produced masterpieces in numerous genres, including adventure fiction, children’s classics, poetry, critical essays and influential anthologies. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook provides Quiller-Couch’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Quiller-Couch’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* All 23 novels, with individual contents tables

* Features rare novels, including the unfinished novel ‘Castle Dor’. (Please note: Daphne du Maurier’s completion cannot appear due to copyright)

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork

* Rare story collections

* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories

* Easily locate the stories you want to read

* Poetry collections

* Wide range of Quiller-Couch’s non-fiction

* Features the author’s autobiography — first time in digital print

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

CONTENTS:

The Novels

Dead Man’s Rock (1887)

The Astonishing History of Troy Town (1888)

The Splendid Spur (1889)

The Blue Pavilions (1891)

Ia (1896)

St. Ives (1898)

The Ship of Stars (1899)

The Westcotes (1902)

Hetty Wesley (1903)

The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903)

Fort Amity (1904)

The Shining Ferry (1905)

The Mayor of Troy (1906)

Sir John Constantine (1906)

Poison Island (1907)

Major Vigoureux (1907)

True Tilda (1909)

Lady Good-for-Nothing (1910)

Brother Copas (1911)

Hocken and Hunken (1912)

Nicky-Nan, Reservist (1915)

Foe-Farrell (1918)

Castle Dor (1962)

The Short Story Collections

Noughts and Crosses (1891)

The Delectable Duchy (1893)

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter’s Tales (1893)

Wandering Heath (1895)

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900)

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902)

Two Sides of the Face (1903)

Shakespeare’s Christmas and Other Stories (1905)

Merry-Garden and Other Stories (1907)

The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910)

Corporal Sam and Other Stories (1910)

News from the Duchy (1913)

In Powder and Crinoline (1913)

Mortallone and Aunt Trinidad (1917)

Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Short Stories

List of Short Stories in Chronological Order

List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Poetry Collections

Green Bays, Verses and Parodies (1893)

The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems (1912)

The Non-Fiction

The Warwickshire Avon (1891)

Preface to ‘The Golden Pomp’ (1895)

Adventures in Criticism (1896)

Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 (1900)

From a Cornish Window (1906)

Introduction to ‘English Sonnets’ (1897)

The Oxford Book of Ballads (1911)

Thomas Edward Brown (1911)

Poetry (1914)

On the Art of Writing (1916)

Introduction to ‘Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays’ (1916) by William Hazlitt

On the Art of Reading (1920)

Preface to ‘The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse’ (1922)

Preface to ‘Oxford Book of English Prose’ (1923)

The Autobiography

Memories and Opinions (1945)

Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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    Hoogtepuntjes

    Guy De Maupassant, M. R. James, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Cheyney, Arthur Quiller-Couch, P. G. Woodhouse

  2. Noughts And Crosses : Stories, Studies And Sketches

    Arthur Quiller-Couch

  3. The Book of Shadows

    Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, E Nesbit, Barry Pain, E F Benson, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Burke

  4. The Book of Shadows : A Supernatural Anthology of Witches, Hauntings & Occult Horrors – Chilling Tales by Master Storytellers

    Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Nesbit, Barry Pain, E F Benson, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Burke

  5. The Book of Shadows : A Supernatural Horror Anthology of Witches, Ghosts, and Occult Darkness

    Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  6. The Book of Shadows

    Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers, H.G. Wells

  7. Shining Ferry

    Arthur Quiller-Couch

  8. On the Art of Writing : Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914

    Arthur Quiller-Couch

  9. Klaagzang van een go-go danseres

    Thomas Tolnay, Susan Sontag, Edgar Allan Poe, Joy Williams, Michail Saltikov, Peter Cheyney, P. G. Woodhouse, Patricia Highsmith, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Roland Topor, Ron Carlson, Ruth Rendell, Simon Brett, Arthur Quiller-Couch

  10. Poison Island : Enriched edition. A Thrilling Sea Adventure of Pirates, Treasure, and Intrigue

    Arthur Quiller-Couch

  11. The Westcotes : Enriched edition. Navigating Class and Ambition in Victorian England

    Arthur Quiller-Couch

  12. Hocken and Hunken : A Tale of Troy

    Arthur Quiller-Couch