Arthur Quiller-Couch Books


The Mayor of Troy

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Mayor of Troy is a fiction novel written by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monu..

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts - A Book of Stories

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories is a collection of British short stories written by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, a Cornish writer remembered mainly for the monumental publi..

On The Art of Reading

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The following twelve lectures have this much in common with a previous twelve published in 1916 under the title "On the Art of Writing"—they form no compact treatise but present their central idea as ..

The Astonishing History of Troy Town

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Written by Cornish novelist Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town is a literary fiction work.Author's Preface:It is told of a distinguished pedagogue that one day a heat..

The Warwickshire Avon

Arthur Quiller-Couch

From Avon Well the spring flows to the northwest, and we follow it through “wide-skirted meads” dotted with rubbing-posts and divided by stiff ox fences (the bullfinches of the fox-hunter—for we are i..

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Arthur Quiller-Couch

For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Glosse..