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Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated)

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Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated)

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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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The Splendid Spur

By: Arthur T. Quiller-Couch

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The Splendid Spur" by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch is an ancient journey novel set during the English Civil War, offering a thrilling and atmospheric journey through a tumultuous period in history. The tale revolves around the protagonist, Dick Cleave, a Royalist who finds himself caught up in the battle among the Cavaliers and Roundheads. As the warfare unfolds, Dick becomes entangled in a chain of bold escapades and dangerous missions, influenced by way of love, loyalty, and the pursuit of honor. The eponymous "Splendid Spur" becomes an image of courage and backbone, driving the narrative forward. Quiller-Couch skillfully blends historic occasions with fictional factors, developing a brilliant and immersive portrayal of 17th-century England. The novel captures the chaos, intrigue, and complexity of the Civil War, imparting a cast of memorable characters and exploring issues of honor, sacrifice, and the outcomes of political upheaval. Quiller-Couch's descriptive prose and interest to ancient element contribute to the unconventional's authenticity, making it a compelling read for the ones interested by historic fiction and journey. "The Splendid Spur" stands as a captivating tale of love and bravery set towards the backdrop of a state torn apart with the aid of warfare.

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A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt

From Abydos to the Sudan Frontier

By: Arthur E. P. Weigall

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A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt

From Abydos to the Sudan Frontier

By: Arthur E. P. Weigall

First published in 2005. This volume has been prepared for the use of visitors to the monuments of Upper Egypt, that is to say, all those situated between Balianeh, the southernmost town of Middle Egypt, and Adendan, the last Egyptian village on this side of the Sudan frontier.

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1136206590

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The Splendid Spur: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3

By: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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The Splendid Spur: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3

By: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

A year or two ago it was observed that three writers were using the curiously popular signature "Q." This was hardly less confusing than that one writer should use three signatures (Grant Allen, Arbuthnot Wilson, and Anon), but as none of the three was willing to try another letter, they had to leave it to the public (whose decision in such matters is final) to say who is Q to it. The public said, Let him wear this proud letter who can win it, and for the present at least it is in the possession of the author of "The Splendid Spur" and "The Blue Pavilions." It would seem, too, as if it were his "to keep," for "Q" is like the competition cups that are only yours for a season, unless you manage to carry them three times in succession. Mr. Quiller-Couch has been champion Q since 1890. The interesting question is not so much, What has he done to be the only prominent Q of these years, as Is he to be the Q of all time? If so, he will do better work than he has yet done, though several of his latest sketchesÑand one in particularÑare of very uncommon merit. Mr. Quiller-Couch is so unlike Mr. Kipling that one immediately wants to compare them. They are both young, and they have both shown such promise that it will be almost sad if neither can write a book to liveÑas, of course, neither has done as yet. Mr. Kipling is the more audacious, which is probably a matter of training. He was brought up in India, where one's beard grows much quicker than at Oxford, and where you not only become a man (and a cynic) in a hurry, but see and hear strange things (and print them) such as the youth of Oxford miss, or, becoming acquainted with, would not dare insert in the local magazine of the moment. So Mr. Kipling's first work betokened a knowledge of the world that is by no means to be found in "Dead Man's Rock," the first book published by Mr. Quiller-Couch. On the other hand, it cannot truly be said that Mr. Kipling's latest work is stronger than his first, while the other writer's growth is the most remarkable thing about him. It is precisely the same Mr. Kipling who is now in the magazines that was writing some years ago in India (and a rare good Mr. Kipling too), but the Mr. Quiller-Couch of to-day is the Quiller-Couch of "Dead Man's Rock" grown out of recognition. To compare their styles is really to compare the men. Mr. Kipling's is the more startling, the stronger (as yet), and the more mannered. Mark Twain, it appears, said he reads Mr. Kipling for his style, which is really the same thing as saying you read him for his books, though the American seems only to have meant that he eats the beef because he likes the salt. It is a journalistic style, aiming too constantly at sharp effects, always succeeding in getting them. Sometimes this is contrived at the expense of grammar, as when (a common trick with the author) he ends a story with such a paragraph as "Which is manifestly unfair." Mr. Quiller-Couch has never sinned in this way, but his first style was somewhat turgid, even melodramatic, and, compared with Mr. Kipling's, lacked distinction.

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1465594213

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The Splendid Spur

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By: Arthur Quiller-Couch

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By: Arthur Quiller-Couch

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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Sir John Constantine: Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica Beginning with the Year 1756

By: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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Sir John Constantine: Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica Beginning with the Year 1756

By: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The late ingenious Mr. Fett (whose acquaintance you will make in the following pages), having been commissioned by Mr. Dodsley, the publisher, to write a conspectus of the Present State of the Arts in Italy at two guineas the folioÑa fair price for that class of workÑ had delivered close upon two hundred folios before Mr. Dodsley interposed, professing unbounded admiration of the work, its style, and matter, but desiring to know when he might expect the end: "For," said he, "I have other enterprises which will soon be demanding attention, and, as a business-man, I like to make my arrangements in good time." To this Mr. Fett replied, that he, for his part, being well content with the rate of remuneration, did not propose to end the work at all!Ñand, the agreement, having unaccountably failed to stipulate for any such thing as a conclusion, Mr. Dodsley had to compound for one at a crippling price. So this story had, in Browning's phrase, "grown old along with me," but for the forethought of Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., in limiting its serial flow to twelve numbers of The Cornhill MagazineAs it is, I have added a few chapters; but a hundred and fifty episodes remain unwritten, with the courtships of Mr. Priske, and the funeral oration spoken by the Rev. Mr. Grylls over the cenotaph Of Sir John Constantine in Constantine Parish Church. These omissions, however, may be remedied if you will ask the publishers for another edition. Now, if it be objected against some of the adventures of Sir John Constantine that they are extravagant, or against some of his notions that they are fantastic, I answer that this book attempts to describe a man and not one of these calculable little super men who, of late, have been taking up so much more of your attention than they deserve. Students who engage in psychical research, as it is called, often confess themselves puzzled by the behaviour of ghosts, it appears to them wayward and trivial. How much more likely are ghosts to be puzzled by the actions of real men? And we are surely ghosts if we keep nothing of the blood which sent our fathers like schoolboys to the crusades.

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Book's by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch

Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated)

The Splendid Spur

The Splendid Spur

A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt

A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt

The Splendid Spur: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3

The Splendid Spur: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3

The Splendid Spur

The Splendid Spur

The Splendid Spur

The Splendid Spur

Sir John Constantine: Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica Beginning with the Year 1756

Sir John Constantine: Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica Beginning with the Year 1756

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